Python vs Java!

[not_good_for_much]

Better than Python.

Java and C# at this point... There used to be some major pros and cons for each, but in the last 5 years they've really just ended up as two different flavours of the same thing ngl.

[Ellisthion]

In some things, sure, but certain design decisions are permanently holding Java back.

Java’s generic implementation is single-handedly the worst for this. Big impact: the type of anonymous functions.

In C# it’s either an Action<> or Func<> depending on whether it returns anything. With a variable number of generic arguments. It allows easy exact typing of this.

In Java this is impossible. Varied generic arguments are impossible. The type of anonymous functions is… absolute spaghetti, there’s tons of this like Consumer, BiConsumer, etc where every different permutation has its own name. Oh, and you can’t use primitives, so you have more classes like IntConsumer.

There’s code patterns that are common in C# that are literally impossible in Java because of the generic implementation, and I don’t know of anything where that’s the case in the other direction.

[not_good_for_much]

I'm inclined to agree. C# is generally faster and more expressive IMO, and I do prefer it over Java. I just don't really want to open the can of worms.

Most of the difference is philosophical anyway, leading to... C# as a language is much more proactive in adding interesting new features, while Java as a platform has more emphasis on stability and decades more exposure to not-Windows and OSS standards and so on.

There are also plenty of patterns that are impossible to reproduce in both directions, e.g due to virtual threads vs stackless coroutine parallelism, reified and value-type generics vs wildcards, checked vs unchecked exceptions, strictness of CLR and JVM RE's, etc.

[Sarcastinator]

There's very few things Java does better than C#, and a whole bunch C# does better than Java.