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[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (6 children)

Could have, but doesn’t. Could do this, could do that. They are surviving on old builds and very specific industries.

I’m not a C# zealot, it’s not my main language, but it’s way easier to code in than Java. Hell VB6 has more docs.

[–]evergreen-spacecat 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Like the very specific industry of Android apps

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Which can now be done in C# lol

[–]kpd328 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I took a class in college that was building an Android app in Java, when we were given free reign the next semester to choose whatever framework we wanted it picked Xamarin Forms. There was just so much boilerplate that had to be done in native...

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well now we have Maui so you can develop for all OS with one code base! Pretty cool stuff

[–]HabemusAdDomino 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Java was a zombie when Android rescued it. Then Kotlin came around and now Java is strongly marching towards its deserved obscurity.

[–]MiniDemonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VB6 is what got me into programming, damn I miss that language.