I worked in Microsoft shops for the majority of my early career, so cross-platform didn't matter to me. C# had task-based async and a very good, compared to th

I worked in Microsoft shops for the majority of my early career, so cross-platform didn't matter to me. C# had task-based async and a very good, compared to the competition in Java, database framework to work with. Seriously, how doesn't Java have named parameters yet?