Linked by Michael Klein on Sat 5th Jun 2004 06:48 UTC
This was a letter I recently wrote to Sun's head of global communications, Russ Castronovo, after reading his interview with Chuck Talk on orangecrate.com, and then reading the ongoing pro-/anti-Mono arguments over at PlanetGnome. Now that Sun seems to be on the brink of making the decision to open-source Java (or not to), I thought it would be an appropriate time to take action.
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I have rather a language feature more then one less. Where do you think is .NET over the top? The following things I wouldn't want to miss: enums, anonymous methods (iirc called closures in other languages), delegates, value types, attributes and reflection (fundamental and ubiquitously in the .NET architecture, libraries and way of coding), generics that are not only a compiler hack, versioning. There is probably more were Java is weak in contrast to .NET like the IDE and the library is way better I think. I must admit I don't know more about Java than the things I was reading on osnews, probably Java has strengthens I'm totally ignorant about so please excuse my .NET enthusiasm