alt Hacker NewsHow .net got so many things right where java did not is a mystery to me, but appreciated (it has its own flaws, of course). Java, in my understanding, is still of core relevance to Oracle, and tied into a lot of contracts that require very little effort from them to maintain. But you are correct in observing that they want to be a datacentre/compute business more and more these days; they may have in fact overcomitted to this due to the AI craze, since shareholders are already complaining.
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What things are you referring to? Especially after the many features that Java gained after Java 8.
It's no mystery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
The mystery of why .NET got so many things right is simply that C# was built several years later by the exact same Microsoft engineers who had previously worked on extending Java, giving them a perfect blank slate to fix the architectural flaws they had already encountered
Second mover advantage.
> How .net got so many things right where java did not is a mystery to me
Part of the reason for that is that Java is older. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)...:
“In interviews and technical papers, he has stated that flaws in most major programming languages (e.g. C++, Java, Delphi, and Smalltalk) drove the fundamentals of the Common Language Runtime (CLR), which, in turn, drove the design of the C# language.”
Also, some of Java’s design warts may be there because Java was initially envisioned for much smaller devices.