alt Hacker NewsPretty sure they did a J# ;). But I agree that Kotlin is their C#.
The JDK and JVM has advanced so fast while android has been lagging. It's pretty frustrating, especially because google has been so slow to pull in changes from later java versions.
A part of me wishes that android would just dump their hokey dalvik, ART, and other BS and just use the OpenJDK or a fork of the OpenJDK with whatever special sauce they need. A lot of the project Leyden stuff lends itself nicely to maybe someday being able to run real java on android.
Edit: Apparently android is forking OpenJDK, since Android 7.
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Do you think it's legal reasons, technical reasons, NIH syndrome, or some other reason why Android doesn't use OpenJDK?
J# was the transition product to port J++ into .NET, I am quite sure.
Not only I was there on those years, my employer was a MSFT partner that got to test .NET before it was announced to the world, so that we could have our products as part of the announcement event in Portugal.
OpenJDK is cherry picked, Google only picks pieces of it, rather than full compatibility.
J++ predates C#. It was Microsoft's version of Java that wasn't quite compatible.