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> it still doesn’t seem popular outside of large enterprise type companies What an odd argument for not learning language. A lot of these students will go on t

• Symbiote 8y ago
  Java is popular in large enterprises, but also on Android, in smaller enterprises (in my experience, lots of public sector work), and is fairly common for open source software. If you're already teaching Java, there's no reason to add C#.
• scarface74 8y ago
  As a decade plus C# developer, I think an experienced Java developer could pick up the language with one of the “dummies” books. I would then tell them to study Linq. It would probably take a few days to get comfortable with Web API or EF on top of that if that’s part of thier jobs. The last time I looked for a job, .Net was already considered “older tech”. The writing is on the wall. It’s not going anywhere. It’s not “dieing” but unless MS can turn things around, it’s not going to be adopted by the next generation of developers. I’m not trying to be in management so I have to look at where things are going in the next 10 years. I spent my first 12 as a C/C++ bit twiddler, and the next 10 in .Net with a little front end web/JavaScript work during the time. And while JavaScript “full stack developer” jobs are also becoming increasingly commoditized and wages seem to have stagnated for them too, it’s still important for the typical developer to add that to their tool belt. What are the chance over the next ten years that the Web will transition from JS? (FWIW, these days I’m mostly an architect/team lead either by responsibility or title depending on which way the wind is blowing in a given year).