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> a solid argument why the language itself is nice to work with Java with IntelliJ is awesomely productive. You barely have to type anything beyond new variabl

> a solid argument why the language itself is nice to work with Java with IntelliJ is awesomely productive. You barely have to type anything beyond new variable / field names, everything else is generated or tab completed. Refactoring is a breeze. That, times 'worse is better' - it's the language and toolset I already know for the types of things it's good at. I have no doubt C# is comparable or better at most things, but probably not so much so that it is worth switching.

Semaphor 6y ago
> Java with IntelliJ is awesomely productive. They have a C# IDE (Rider) now, based on IntelliJ. While it was originally the only non-Windows C# IDE, I and others have switched to it from Visual Studio (which is almost as good) even on Windows. > I have no doubt C# is comparable or better at most things, but probably not so much so that it is worth switching. I’d say you are right. Now. 10 years or so ago (6/7/8 times) I’d have disagreed, C# avoided many of the mistakes* Java made and was able to become far more pleasurable to use, it took some time for Java to catch up again. *: Mistakes only in hindsight