> C# is perhaps much better, but has stronger proprietary ties and vendor lock-in What vendor lock-in? The whole thing is open source from the compiler to the

> C# is perhaps much better, but has stronger proprietary ties and vendor lock-in What vendor lock-in? The whole thing is open source from the compiler to the runtime - https://github.com/dotnet https://github.com/dotnet If anything Java is more locked in as the most popular and 'official' runtime/devkit (Oracle Java/JDK) is completely closed source.