Considering that for the last several years nearly every significant improvement to Java has come from them copying from C#, if anyone should be looking down it is the C# folks.
I've been working in C# for the last five years or so, and I couldn't ever consider going back to Java again, every time I look at some code, even my own, I just see all the nice things that are missing.
There is so much that might seem like syntactic sugar at first, but when you get into it, you can just express yourself in a lot less code compared to Java. Sadly, there also seems to be a culture thing around Java to make things needlessly complicated, whereas the culture for C# is about writing less.
I've started using Jython along with Java at work to get some of the syntactic niceties described for C#. But it would be nice to get the syntax without having to cross language boundaries.
Exactly ! In fact, I know of people (myself included) who look at C# in envy !
I think Microsoft has managed the language really well, even taking painful decisions like backward-incompatible versions to properly support generics. Kudos to the team !
Pardon my misunderstanding, if there is one, but didn't C# start as essentially Microsoft's clone of Java? Seems if Java wants to return the favor, it's fair enough.
