alt Hacker News> particularly when compared to that of .net, where MS etc. mostly seemed to make the correct decisions from the start.
Wut? I did worked on .net projects and all it achieved was making me like java a lot more then previously.
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ivolimmen • today at 12:30 PM
Same for me. I have worked with Java since 1.2.2 and used .NET for something like 10 years (don't remember the versions). Most important differences are:
-Java always has an API, .NET is about extending an existing application (Servlet API vs IIS)
-Java has a nicer IO as .NET has bidirectional streams (You can't wrap streams in .NET).
-Linq is nice but has a huge caveat: if a Linq provider does not implement it fully to falls back to the .NET collections. So trying to 'Skip' and 'Take' on a ActiveDirectory will fall back to collections in memory and cause a crash on a huge AD in production (Yes had the pleasure).
-Java's Eco-system is way bigger.➕ show 2 replies
peterashford • today at 1:18 PM
Yeah, me too. Java always seemed to consider design a lot more than C# which seems to have taken more of a kitchen sink approach to language design. That stuff piles up over time (see c++)
newsoftheday • today at 2:55 PM
Agreed. I jumped on the .NET bandwagon in 2000 and was on it for several years but ended up going back to Java by 2005.
I had the opposite experience, spent a year with each language, first Java then C#, and to me C# felt like "Java done right". (Which appeared to be the original design goal behind the language!) So I'm curious about your experience.
To me it felt a bit less like a religion and more like a language. It didn't force me to do things a particular way, quite as much. (Still more than I would have liked, though! After all, it's called that[0] for a reason :)
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ddc4b0/mic...