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The biggest difference is that C#'s design is way better than Java's, so there's not nearly as much motivation to move to another language targeting .NET.
by kvb 14y ago
The biggest difference is that C#'s design is way better than Java's, so there's not nearly as much motivation to move to another language targeting .NET.
- gnuvince 14y agoAccording to an article linked in this article, there is.
- kvb 14y agoI love F# (I'm currently a contractor with the F# team in Microsoft Research), and I'm delighted to see people advocating its use. I prefer F# to C# by a wide margin. But C# is still a really well designed language, which makes it much harder for F# to gain wider traction than if it were competing primarily against a weaker language like Java.