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Its weird how far java has fallen behind C# (especially given that C# was, to put it kindly, originally just basically "microsoft java".) It would seem like Or

• jpitz 10y ago
  The falling-behind happened early, and fast. MS took full advantage of second-mover status to change fast and add features. They also targeted fewer platforms initially. While the market niche was certainly aimed squarely at the same demographic as Java users, the language owes as least as much to Borland Object Pascal as it does to Java. Speaking of Object Pascal, MS also got Anders Hejlsburg to design it. Oracle/Sun, stuck with a huge, conservative enterprise user base, was shackled by backwards compatibility. In hindsight, I don't think it weird that Java fell behind the way it did.
  • douche 10y ago
    There was a huge gap of time where effectively there was no forward progress with Java. I learned Java 6 in high school - by the time I graduated college Java 7 still hadn't been released.