As the Sun vs. Microsoft battle over Java drags on, Windows developers wonder if it's time to write off J++ and adopt Microsoft's 'Java killer,' C#.

The difference between fourth-ranked Java, with an 8.92% rating, and fifth-ranked C#, with 7.71%, was just about 1.2 percentage points in the just-published Tiobe index for October 2023.

Java's decline in popularity is mainly caused by Oracle's decision to introduce a paid license model after Java 8." Microsoft, however, even though it was widely known as a proprietary, closed-off ...

Developers with C#, VB.net or ASP.net skills out-earned Java developers by £50 a day at each level, according to the report. The highest paid development role was development director, earning £ ...

Java is currently at number 4 on the Tiobe index of language popularity, with an 8.92% rating, while C# is ranked fifth with a 7.71% rating. Java was ranked top in April 2020, its highest position ...

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.