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Perhaps it was an era when everyone was trying to compete with (or embrace) Java?
by lukeh 2y ago
Perhaps it was an era when everyone was trying to compete with (or embrace) Java?
- rzzzt 2y ago.NET and C# appeared to counter the proliferation of Java after J++ has been sidelined in court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Sun's_litigation_against_Microsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Sun's_litigatio...
- giancarlostoro 2y agoYep, there was also J# an intermediary language so you could run old J++ code on .NET iirc which obviously became defunct sooner rather than later since C# became defacto. I have yet to meet a C# dev who actually touched J++ or J# to be honest.
- jahewson 2y agoYep, some interesting tidbits here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1083368/whats-the-early-history-of-the-net-framework https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1083368/whats-the-early-...
- chubs 2y agoMy recollection of the reason back then was that running on a VM would make the transition to 64 bits smooth, which at the time was worrying everyone a lot.