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Where can I find more info on the performance work done on collections?

Your comment was about C# being "the best language in terms of features and improvements", nothing about usage numbers.

I agree that C# is far more widely used than Scala, but Scala is being used by significant numbers of developers esp. for Spark. Tiobe is also widely regarded as a pretty poor indicator of language adoption.

> CSharp once again showing it is the best language in terms of features and improvements.

That's a pretty sweeping generalization. Most of the headline features in the article are already in other languages e.g. Scala.

Java's a pretty extreme outlier for late or non-adoption of modern features, but it is true that Java is the closest direct competitor/peer to C# in terms of usage/marketshare. C# seems to be steadily shifting from being a language which initially (v1.0) looked like Java to one which looks increasingly like Scala (e.g. addition of pattern matching, tuples, local methods etc.).

I don't think Android is a good example of a platform which .NET supports which Java doesn't since Java is the primary development language for Android apps...

I'm also pretty sure that embedded Java is widely deployed in IoT applications.

Care to name some of these platforms which Java doesn't run on which .NET supports? I'm having a hard time coming up with even a very short list.

Working on the next major version Scala (3.0) != "looses interest" in Scala.

Odersky gave some details of language features being removed for Scala 3 in his talk and it seemed to be really obscure features I don't use anyway.

> it's a great feature for boring driving

I'd much rather have a "boring" driver on the road than deal with aggressive drivers.

At least the JVM supports multiple languages (Scala, Clojure etc.), but if there's a spec it shouldn't be hard for anyone to add support for other languages.

Horrifying! My primary email account is also with Yahoo. I really hope this doesn't go through.

Those damn hair emergencies, always sneaking up on a person...

Me too. I was super surprised when I clicked through to see a Go framework.