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As a POSIX-loving, open-source-breathing guy: platform availability being equal, why choose Java over C#?

• mdaniel 12y ago
  I would venture it's a ton easier to find Java programmers than C# ones (at the current moment), and the same story for libraries for likely the same underlying reason. As a pragmatic issue, if you weren't already using Mono, then it would probably be wise to let the newly open-sourced CoreCLR stew for a while to find subtle kinks introduced by the process through which it was open-sourced and/or the pressures exerted upon it by full-time dev or test (or even prod!) usage on non-Windows platforms. As a much more subjective issue, Intellij versus every C# editor is an unfair matchup. It's possible JetBrains will get into the C# editor space now that they might have more marketshare who are not on Windows, but it's probably very far down their priority queue.
  • axefrog 12y ago
    Visual Studio + ReSharper. Hardly unfair.
  • ttrashh 12y ago
    One of JetBrains primary products is Resharper. It's a must have add on for Visual Studio. If we're going to be subjective I'd say no other IDE gets close to the combination of Visual Studio and Resharper.
• meddlepal 12y ago
  Tooling and libraries. If JetBrains cranks out a .NET IDE then sign me up. I don't really want to learn Visual Studio. Also I develop on Linux primarily so VS isn't even an option.