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pjmlplast Friday at 4:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Except JetBrains, Red-Hat, SAP, Azul, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, PTC, Aicas, Cisco, Ricoh, microEJ, Bluejay,... are also part of the Java party.


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jiggawattslast Friday at 9:19 PM

Microsoft largely cloned the Java Runtime to create the .NET Runtime and similarly cloned Java to create C#.

The two are so similar that Java bytecode to .NET bytecode translators exist. With some, it is possible to take a class defined in Java, subclass it with C#, call it from Java, etc...

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