C# is now a better language than Java

Re:C# is now a better language than Java by adharmad on Friday July 31, 2009 @11:44AM (#734628)

A thing that I have wondered about: Although Java and C# are similar languages with very similar libraries and features, Java has migrated towards being used for server side and middleware programming. C# however has not gone in this direction even on Windows platforms. What is the reason? Wouldn't it be easy to write the equivalent of Tomcat, JBoss, EJB's etc. in pure C#?

It is surprising that some of the apache projects have .NET equivalents (lucene, log4j, ant) but some others dont........

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Re:C# is now a better language than Java by vetinari on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:12PM (#734693)

Windows shops are vary of writing functionality, that might one day compete with Microsoft. Writing net Tomcat/JBoss could clash with IIS and future frameworks. Something like this happened with nant/msbuild and nunit/mstest. Commercial companies find it difficult to justify development of tools with high risk of being obsolete soon (something competing with MS product does not stand a chance in most Windows shops). Apache projects do not care about this risk.

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