| Guava/Commons contains a lot more than collections. The standard class library in .NET has maybe a third of what's in Guava. Keep in mind that Java's built in library is probably just as big as C#. I won't bore everyone going over the list but check out the summary
https://github.com/google/guava/wiki Things I've used recently include Guavas automatic argument tester, in memory caches/queues, high speed hashing algorithms, and Bloom filter. None of that stuff has real equivalents in C#. That redis client looks solid, so I may got a bit carried trying to prove a point. The Postgres driver looks good too, but is not officially maintain by the PG team so it could evaporate some day. The Java equivalent IS an official Postgres driver. I see this with C# frequently, it's treated as second class by a lot of OSS projects. You didn't make a counterpoint to Lucene, I assume because there was really no equal out there for C#. These days tying your language to Windows, visual studio, and IIS is unforgivable. MS is trying to undo this with .NET core but for the time being I find it rediculous to need to pay for all these licenses. If my employer wasn't paying for my enterprise edition of VS and copies of IIS, Windows Server, and SQL Server I wouldn't be touching C# at all. At home I use OpenJDK with eclipse and Dropwizard running on Linux with Postgres. The quality of the tech is the same and everything is free and open source. |