Why is C# suddenly so popular?

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Published on 2009-02-22T19:22:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 1:58 UTC
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Why is C# suddenly so popular? There's been like a repeat explosion in the blogs lately about it; It reminds me of the earlier part of this decade when all of those frameworks for Java came out like Spring, JSF, Hibernate, Struts, Struts2, Tapestry etc...

I've actually been thinking about learning C#, and it seems to contain a lot of qualities that it has gotten from Java (aside from it being completely cross-platform)

But, it almost seems like a step backwards to me...its not totally multi-platform, a language that's run by a corporation rather than a community...

(But, knowing this isn't the case, I've come here to find out why it isn't...)

P.S. And yes, I am aware of the Mono project so that you can run it on Linux, but isn't it always behind the curve? A new version of Java would be supported on all the platforms.

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