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by OkayPhysicist 1093 days ago
How inflexible do you have to be that nobody on a team bothered to pick up C#? Java and C# are probably the two most similar languages that are still considered distinct.
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It was never about competence. Most of us were of different backgrounds.

It was about the need to track down, secure licenses for and install the dev environment that you'd use for those 4-8 hours per year that it took to add support for the new API.

The entire company lived in the JVM otherwise.