Except JetBrains, Red-Hat, SAP, Azul, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, PTC, Aicas, Cis...

jiggawatts · 2026-01-09T21:19:17 1767993557

Microsoft largely cloned the Java Runtime to create the .NET Runtime and similarly cloned Java to create C#.

The two are so similar that Java bytecode to .NET bytecode translators exist. With some, it is possible to take a class defined in Java, subclass it with C#, call it from Java, etc...

pjmlp · 2026-01-09T21:51:58 1767995518

I was in 2001 at a MSFT gold partner, you are skipping quite a few relevant steps on that timeline.