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Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox 360... yeah, sorry, they pretty much perfectly illustrated that point. Considering the early advantage Java had over C#, who seems to be
by angersock 13y ago
Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox 360... yeah, sorry, they pretty much perfectly illustrated that point.
Considering the early advantage Java had over C#, who seems to be laughing now? Business apps (you know, the boring 90% of software) seems overwhelmingly in favor of those two languages, with C# doing a bit better.
I think you're rather wrong.
- herge 13y agoC# also begets MSSQL.
- sk5t 13y agoDefinitely not. CLR integration within MSSQL is, at best, widely ignored.
- cgh 13y agoDisagree about C#/.NET "doing better" than Java (by which I think you mean more widely deployed). Java is nearly ubiquitous in big corps from Cisco to LinkedIn and everything in between. On the desktop, C# obvious wins, however. But your point still stands: MS went from a standing start to a credible competitor, overcoming their early embrace-and-extinguish failures like Visual J++.
- blueskin_ 13y agoI'd say Java is far more popular than C#.
- tolmasky 13y agoAnother important realization is how many games are now being written in C# thanks to Mono/Unity, and on iOS no less! Arguably they may not be getting a "direct benefit" from this, but for example I would have never imagined ever being proficient in C#, yet here I am now with this skillset and fluent in a tech I would have otherwise had no interest in whatsoever. Because of this, I now actually have a favorable opinion of .NET, and while not having a particular interest in enterprise, would certainly be more likely to use these technologies for it if for whatever reason chance took me to that space.