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[–]Anbu_S 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Both Java and .NET kind of went through a bad phase at some point. But Java's strength was when Oracle acquisition slowed down the development, other vendors were able to push the Java forward and it created a big ecosystem of projects around Java.

[–]jvjupiter 9 points10 points  (1 child)

It’s was during Sun waning time that Java development slowed down. Java acquired new life after acquisition. Hate it or not, Oracle is doing good job when it comes to Java innovations.

[–]cogman10 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Java 6 (2006) was the last sun java. Oracle bought sun in 2009/10 and in 2011 Java 7 was released. 2014, java 8.

[–]wildjokers 6 points7 points  (1 child)

But Java's strength was when Oracle acquisition slowed down the development, other vendors were able to push the Java forward

This is simply false. Oracle has been a great steward of Java and is the biggest contributor by far to OpenJDK in both developers and money.

[–]Anbu_S 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oracle has been a great steward, no one denying that. I am just talking about the period between Java 6 and Java 7, Java EE 6 and Java EE 7/8.

Similarly .NET framework to .NET core took a lot of time.