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I completely agree. After having used C# extensively recently, and having used quite a lot of Java before that, I have a feeling that C# is what Java should have been/should be.

LINQ alone makes C# infinitely less verbose and 'boilerplate' than Java.

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Yeah, having done a little C#, my impression was "They aimed for 'a better Java' and mostly succeeded."

Mostly? There are very few things Java does better as a language, and most of those are opinion, not outright better.

My biggest interest in .Net/CLI/Mono from very early on was how much easier it was to interface with systems libraries vs. Java's JNI.

Given the large surface areas of each, I'd be astounded if there were zero points on which Java is genuinely superior. I don't recall either well enough to give any specifics.

Viable production-ready implementations existing on all major server platforms (without having to jettison favorite libraries here and there), is a pretty big one, but I guess that might go without saying (or maybe outside the scope of "language" proper - but that's the elephant in the room).

Better enums in Java.

So true. C# = What Java wanted to be, sans "write once, deploy anywhere" hype

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