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Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by jussij on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @10:35PM (#7426498)
And go work with C# and you'll pine for nothing.

I've used all three and after a few years of C#, the other two are just a distant memory.

Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by kyrra on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:41AM (#7427012)
Which is heavily windows focused, which is non-starter for a lot of devs. Sure there is Mono, but it does not have nearly the man power behind it that .Net and Java have.
Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by WildUtah on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @03:29AM (#7427215)
And go work with C# and you'll pine for nothing.

Except any worthwhile platform where you're not a second class citizen.

Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:55AM (#7428987)
> And go work with C# and you'll pine for nothing.

If that was true, F# wouldn't have happened. (Nor IronRuby/IronPython). Even people who like the .NET platform often pine for something better for the task at hand than C#.

Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by edwinnathaniel on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:13AM (#7428720)
I did, but then javaagent and JMX pulled me back because hooking to runtime in .net sucks.