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by trailfox 4835 days ago
C# 1.0 was very close to being an exact copy of Java. To say that if C# had been released before Java it would have been more popular is nonsensical as it started life as copy-cat Java. Without Java there wouldn't be a C#. Later versions of C# added more features much faster than Java. Many Java developers have since moved on to Scala and other JVM languages which are more expressive than C#.