Your arguments for picking one over the other, ie, the existence of Mono for C# meaning accessibility to non Windows, and being #1 in Sourceforge over C++ for Java have nothing to do with their intrinsic strengths or weaknesses. I would not frame the choice in those terms.
I hate mediocrity, and I mujst admit that C# and Linux are good peers in that regard. Java is only so slightly better in terms of tooling (as far as I know, there's no Eclipse for C# and everything microsoft visual-whatever-net sucks almost by definition).
In short, you're asking the wrong question. The better one: Should I pick Ruby, Smalltalk, Python, Lisp, PHP? Java and C# will suffer the fate of Ford's Model T: populare at one time, falling into oblivion the next day.
What will you be programming in 10 years from now? Odds are against both of them.
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Your arguments for picking one over the other, ie, the existence of Mono for C# meaning accessibility to non Windows, and being #1 in Sourceforge over C++ for Java have nothing to do with their intrinsic strengths or weaknesses. I would not frame the choice in those terms.
I hate mediocrity, and I mujst admit that C# and Linux are good peers in that regard. Java is only so slightly better in terms of tooling (as far as I know, there's no Eclipse for C# and everything microsoft visual-whatever-net sucks almost by definition).
In short, you're asking the wrong question. The better one:
Should I pick Ruby, Smalltalk, Python, Lisp, PHP?
Java and C# will suffer the fate of Ford's Model T: populare at one time, falling into oblivion the next day.
What will you be programming in 10 years from now? Odds are against both of them.