[ivolimmen]

Same for me. I have worked with Java since 1.2.2 and used .NET for something like 10 years (don't remember the versions). Most important differences are:

  -Java always has an API, .NET is about extending an existing application (Servlet API vs IIS)
  -Java has a nicer IO as .NET has bidirectional streams (You can't wrap streams in .NET).
  -Linq is nice but has a huge caveat: if a Linq provider does not implement it fully to falls back to the .NET collections. So trying to 'Skip' and 'Take' on a ActiveDirectory will fall back to collections in memory and cause a crash on a huge AD in production (Yes had the pleasure).
  -Java's Eco-system is way bigger.

[jaen]

> -Linq is nice but has a huge caveat: if a Linq provider does not implement it fully to falls back to the .NET collections. So trying to 'Skip' and 'Take' on a ActiveDirectory will fall back to collections in memory and cause a crash on a huge AD in production (Yes had the pleasure).

How do you expect this to work then? If the provider is bad, blaming LINQ for it makes no sense...

You either have a high level of abstraction and possible performance pitfalls - or a low level of abstraction, and also performance pitfalls since the code is less modular, more coupled and harder to read.

LINQ can in many cases improve performance significantly in large applications when used properly, since it avoids N+1 query problems due to implementation hiding/modularity, and allows composing parts of queries across different vertical subsystems of the application (vs. each subsystem doing its own query and then joining them with more boilerplate).

Nothing in Java compares to this. jOOQ and Hibernate (and the rest in the ORM ecosystem) are pale shadows, exactly due to lacking language features (such as reified expression trees), and even then, they only work with databases.

[ivolimmen]

I mostly blame it on Linq but you are right it mostly because bad documentation on both the provider and the general stuff on how Linq works.

Yes Java does not have an alternative for Linq and jooq is a poor knock-off compared to this but then again: I do not care much for JPA/Hibernate.

[Rohansi]

> .NET is about extending an existing application (Servlet API vs IIS)

I don't think this is true anymore since ASP.NET Core. While you can still run under IIS but it's a more typical reverse proxy setup instead of running inside IIS.

> You can't wrap streams in .NET

You've always been able to wrap streams in .NET so I'm not sure what you mean by this

[ivolimmen]

Yes ASP.NET core is a big improvement; I recently tried .NET again on my Linux machine and was able to run .NET and skip using Mono.

If we want to compress a file we normally just wrap the file ouputstream in a GZIPOutputStream so we add features by wrapping it.