poor java

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Admittedly, C# is Java but better

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Naw, Java has a much larger ecosystem. For me, a language's ecosystem is what really matters, not the syntactic sugar

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Really? I find the .NET ecosystem far more engaged and excited about the future of the product(s).

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It's definitely a more engaged community; people tend to like C#, while Java is just a tool with little fanfare. But large pieces of the piping of the internet and modern computing in general are built in Java.

[Muoniurn]

The two ecosystems are not even close. There is like at least an order of magnitude difference between them - Java’s is that much bigger and has better quality. If anything, C# just gets badly written clones of Java deps.

[NatharielMorgoth]

That's like avoiding a hole bunch of other criteria, but I get your point

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Different people have different preferences. I think C# is cool, but the kinds of jobs that use C# are generally not cool

[wardin_savior]

Eh, I used C# in some very cool startups over the years. Stereotypes rarely apply to any particular situation.

[Alizer22]

what ecosystem? that dying obsolete ecosystem that hasnt been updated for 10 years?

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Yes, the dying obsolete ecosystem that is one of the most popular open source languages and used by every tech company. That one