A classic thread that gives a mature and responsible consideration of such things as ecosystem and tooling. In particular appreciate Mikera’s answer respecting Java’s extensibility as the more open of the two, which has led to things like Groovy, Scala, and Clojure (though Clojure also has a CLR version, it’s being hosted on the JVM is one of its super-powers). https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/51887/java-vs-c-productivity-perspective