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		jiggawatts 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happened to WebAssembly Microsoft largely cloned the Java Runtime to create the .NET Runtime and similarly cloned Java to create C#. The two are so similar that Java bytecode to .NET bytecode translators exist. With some, it is possible to take a class defined in Java, subclass it with C#, call it from Java, etc...

pjmlp 28 days ago [–]

I was in 2001 at a MSFT gold partner, you are skipping quite a few relevant steps on that timeline.

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