IMO .net is much better than Java, at least it was 10 years ago. So it's not like I don't understand them.
CLR is better on the polyglot approach, although Microsoft nowadays behaves as if C means C# and not Common, and ironically JVM seems to have a more vivid guest languages ecosystem nowadays. Any of Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, Groovy, seem to enjoy more activity than F#, VB or C++/CLI.
There are plus on the JVM side that Microsoft will probably never care for.
- A single vendor implementation, Microsoft no longer cares about ECMA
- Following from being a single vendor, there aren't multiple GC, JIT and AOT approaches to chose from
- Some of those implementations explore having most of the stack bootstraped instead of still being based on C and C++.
- One of them being a compiler development framework, whereas Microsoft killed theirs (Project Phoenix)
- Others offer real time GC, and embedded deployments in high critical computing environments, although less than 20 years ago, there are still three main vendors in this area
- A mobile OS, after Microsoft botched theirs when it was around 10% market share in Europe already, and now they don't have a platform for younger generations
Note that Java, .NET and C++ are my main toolbox tools, thus it isn't hating one over the other.
For that matter, deno in a shebang for an extensionless file now detects as a TypeScript file properly in VS Code. win-win-win. While being portable with a relatively small executable surface (deon executable only).
It was!
I specifically talk here about a subset of people who was very ignorant but became very angry because... well, they are probably still write it as M$ so there is no point continue.