"The gap between C# and Java never has been so small," says the latest edition of the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity. "Currently, the difference is only 1.2 percent, and if the trends ...

Java showed a dramatic decline of -3.92% on TIOBE’s system. While the programming language still sits at number four, Jansen notes that C# has never been this close to catching up to Java.

By Keith Ward 05/11/2012 Java is the underlying code for the Android OS. But one company has changed all that, ripping out most of the Java and replacing it with C#. That means .NET developers can ...