.NET or Java in Speech

  Posted by Lowell Clark on March 11, 2008

Recently, I had the pleasure of running into someone who called .NET “archaic” and craptastic”. It was apparent from the rest of the conversation that this wordsmith had a bias towards Java and open-source. For the rest of this blog we will call this person “John Smith”.

Disclaimer: I have limited knowledge of Java and its environments, but from what I have seen, I prefer the .NET languages and environment over Java.

So, I decided to do a little research to find out why someone would have chosen these words to describe a language and environment that I enjoy developing in. During my limited research I came across the following two blogs.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=5890
http://rwatsh.blogspot.com/2006/12/java-vs-net.html

I am sure you all know that you can not believe everything that you read on the Internet, so I decided to hunt down one of my previous co-workers who has developed both in Java and in .NET. This previous co-worker indicated that he preferred developing in the .NET environment.

So far, I have concluded that both .NET and Java are very good and mature environments and have their own strengths and weaknesses. I also believe that the verbiage used to describe the .NET technology by John Smith is not backed by any factual information and was most likely an emotional outburst because of stress from an external source.

I am still intrigued by this topic and would like to do more research on it, but for now, I must let it go. I would like to hear the opinions from the speech community on this topic. Do you prefer .NET or Java, and why?

Disclaimer: The information, ideas, and opinions expressed in this blog are mine alone, and do not necessarily reflect those of Message Technologies, Inc.


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