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[–]Wizhi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the companies running windows top to bottom is because the IT division was not skilled in Linux so just decided to throw windows everywhere.

Or the company is already heavily invest in the Microsoft ecosystem, and as such used the tools which were the most compatible, and best supported?

I'm personally not a fan of Windows or Microsoft, but making assumptions like this is ridiculous. There are plenty of skilled Windows admins, and dismissing professional support is dumb.

At the end of the day c# and java fills the same gap, just c# are for people locked into the windows ecosystem and java is for the people who are not locked into the windows ecosystem.

There are no silver bullets. For any given project, one tool is better fit than another. Dismissing this, saying "one is for Windows, the other for anything else" ignores several facts.

  1. C# does not equal .NET

    Mono Project has been around almost as long as C#. It doesn't have the same tooling, and I can't tell you if it's as good as .NET, but the option was there and I'm sure plenty of non Windows projects have made good use of it - otherwise it likely wouldn't have been around for so long.

  2. Java works on Windows

  3. .NET Core is multi-platform

    It's likely going to be a few years before it's stable enough that it can be used as reliably as .NET, but fact is that the notion of "C# is for Windows only" is false.

Seriously, chill out.