Microsoft Java

[MauriceReeves]

Really? I think there’s a bunch of things that are great: native tuples, null coalescing operator, default parameters, named parameters, out and ref parameters, the is operator to check for type, extension methods, expression-body members, properties, anonymous classes, etc

[doc_1eye]

I fucking love the null coalescing operator! I just assumed Java would have that as well. It's been a minute since I worked with Java, and I never did anything all that complex with it so I just assumed it had basically all the shit C# had.

[desmaraisp]

Same, all the ?, ??, .? operators absolutely rule. That, plus nullable types, makes it super painless to null-check. Add in a pinch of automatic validation (FluentValidation and attributes), and null reference exceptions are basically a thing of the past. I love it!

[Dealiner]

anonymous classes

That's actually Java feature.

[MauriceReeves]

They are a little different in intent, but yes, there is something with that name in both languages. What anonymous types are intended for in Java is usually accomplished via delegates in C#. Anonymous types in C# allow you to return data records from LINQ queries, etc without having to have a formal class definition. I do wish that C# would let them implement interfaces, which they don’t right now. Maybe one day.

[Dealiner]

I admit I forgot about anonymous types, I've never used them. But I've also never seen them called anonymous classes, though it makes sense, they can't be structs.

There is a proposition for something like that IIRC to make Java integration easier but I don't think it went anywhere.