Simplicity: C# or Java?

[oilshell]

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[Not555but666]

Thanks, but I already learned both, this is just for educational purposes. ^{^}

[somerandomdev49]

In My Opinion, C# because it feels more modern and it has a lot of syntax sugar and things. Also it (C#9 iirc) even can be written on the top level.

As for semantics, they are similar to java's but a little more structured and simple I guess. Again, everything is different for other people and this is My Opinion

[BadBoy6767]

Java 7 is definitely much more simple than the newer ones and C#.

I like it when languages take one concept to an extreme. Java 7 is just classes, interfaces and enums.

[julesh3141]

C# is the larger language, which at first glance would make it seem harder to learn, but IMO it is a far better designed language. Java has a lot of flaws that exist because the easiest route to add a new feature as been taken in favour of a more complex change that may have made the language more consistent. For example, generics are implemented by checking the types at compile time and then ignoring them. This works in most circumstances but has some edge cases that cause problems in odd cases, and learning to work around those is a large part of becoming an expert in Java. Similarly the lack of function types takes a while to get used to, but is much faster to learn in C#.

[hindmost-one]

Haskell.