Question

This is a trend I’ve noticed. There is a very large adoption of ruby from the java community. Is it that c# is such an awesome language + having good tools over java that most c# developers aren’t as keen to switching to ruby permanently as java developers are?

What are your opinions?

Answer 1

C# is a modern, and quite powerful language, sporting:

1. Lambdas (closures)
2. Continuations (yield)
3. Value types
4. Properties
5. Type inference
6. Pass-by-reference

…just to name a few.

These features make a transition from C# to Ruby far less attractive than a transition from Java to Ruby.