.NET do what they do because they believe many people like it, and we do what we do because we believe many people like it. Because different developers like di

.NET do what they do because they believe many people like it, and we do what we do because we believe many people like it. Because different developers like different things, we may both be right. The only explanation to why we do what we do is that we believe it works well for us, and we know what everyone should know, which is that what we do can't be universally liked because developers have different preferences. But that doesn't mean the preferences are equally distributed. Some people liked Betamax's better picture quality while others liked VHS's better recording times, but they didn't do it in equal numbers. And that's what's funny, because there are two languages doing as well as Java or better (one of them is much more popular), and yet what's almost universal is that when people say "Java is worse than X", X is invariably a language that's doing much worse than Java. I'm not saying that there isn't much to learn from less popular languages, but the claim "Java is consistently making the wrong decisions compared X" doesn't make sense when X is consistently losing to Java. And I can even give you the secret to our strategy: Make Java the language that people who choose it regret less than people who choose other languages.