Interesting framing. In my opinion it is sort of the reverse. The structure of .NET was conceived at a time when Java and Objective-C were redefining how to r

Interesting framing. In my opinion it is sort of the reverse. The structure of .NET was conceived at a time when Java and Objective-C were redefining how to relate to runtime. As a result it is .NET that picked up the inspired features from other languages, and that arguably has put .NET ahead of the languages that inspired it.