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I think Microsoft is trying (and, so far, succeeding) to consume this market with their C#/.NET offerings. Their open-sourcing of .NET Core and their commitmen

I think Microsoft is trying (and, so far, succeeding) to consume this market with their C#/.NET offerings. Their open-sourcing of .NET Core and their commitment to cross-platform makes C# (which, of course, has similar syntax and standard libraries to java) an ever more attractive option.

sjellis 8y ago
"I think Microsoft is trying (and, so far, succeeding) to consume this market with their C#/.NET offerings. Their open-sourcing of .NET Core and their commitment to cross-platform makes C# (which, of course, has similar syntax and standard libraries to java) an ever more attractive option." I've seen an interview with one of the managers for .NET who said that directly: they specifically want to compete with Java, and made the platform cross-platform and Open Source partly because Java is those things.