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Pros of C#
Pros of Java
Pros of Stan
  • 351
    Cool syntax
  • 293
    Great lambda support
  • 265
    Great generics support
  • 211
    Language integrated query (linq)
  • 180
    Extension methods
  • 94
    Automatic garbage collection
  • 89
    Properties with get/set methods
  • 84
    Backed by microsoft
  • 71
    Automatic memory management
  • 61
    Amaizing Crossplatform Support
  • 46
    High performance
  • 43
    LINQ
  • 38
    Beautiful
  • 35
    Great ecosystem of community packages with Nuget
  • 27
    Vibrant developer community
  • 24
    Great readability
  • 21
    Dead-simple asynchronous programming with async/await
  • 19
    Visual Studio - Great IDE
  • 17
    Open source
  • 16
    Productive
  • 15
    Strongly typed by default, dynamic typing when needed
  • 15
    Object oriented programming paradigm
  • 12
    Easy separation of config/application code
  • 11
    Great community
  • 10
    OOPS simplified with great syntax
  • 9
    Operator overloading
  • 9
    Cool
  • 8
    Good language to teach OO concepts
  • 8
    High-performance
  • 8
    Events management using delegates
  • 7
    Unity
  • 7
    Linq expressions
  • 6
    Conditional compilation
  • 6
    Coherent language backed by an extensive CLR
  • 5
    Top level code
  • 5
    Organized and clean
  • 5
    Comprehensive platform libraries
  • 4
    Concise syntax, productivity designed
  • 3
    Lovely
  • 2
    Statically typed
  • 1
    Far more sleek and sphisticated than other languages
  • 1
    Simple and Readable
  • 1
    Sophisticated overall
  • 1
    Interfaces
  • 0
    Interfaces
  • 604
    Great libraries
  • 446
    Widely used
  • 401
    Excellent tooling
  • 396
    Huge amount of documentation available
  • 334
    Large pool of developers available
  • 209
    Open source
  • 203
    Excellent performance
  • 158
    Great development
  • 150
    Used for android
  • 148
    Vast array of 3rd party libraries
  • 61
    Compiled Language
  • 53
    Used for Web
  • 47
    High Performance
  • 46
    Managed memory
  • 45
    Native threads
  • 43
    Statically typed
  • 35
    Easy to read
  • 33
    Great Community
  • 29
    Reliable platform
  • 24
    Sturdy garbage collection
  • 24
    JVM compatibility
  • 22
    Cross Platform Enterprise Integration
  • 20
    Good amount of APIs
  • 20
    Universal platform
  • 18
    Great Support
  • 14
    Great ecosystem
  • 11
    Lots of boilerplate
  • 11
    Backward compatible
  • 10
    Everywhere
  • 9
    Excellent SDK - JDK
  • 7
    Static typing
  • 7
    Cross-platform
  • 7
    It's Java
  • 6
    Mature language thus stable systems
  • 6
    Better than Ruby
  • 6
    Long term language
  • 6
    Portability
  • 5
    Clojure
  • 5
    Vast Collections Library
  • 5
    Used for Android development
  • 4
    Best martial for design
  • 4
    Most developers favorite
  • 4
    Old tech
  • 3
    Javadoc
  • 3
    History
  • 3
    Testable
  • 3
    Great Structure
  • 3
    Stable platform, which many new languages depend on
  • 2
    Type Safe
  • 2
    Faster than python
  • 0
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    Cons of C#
    Cons of Java
    Cons of Stan
    • 15
      Poor x-platform GUI support
    • 8
      Closed source
    • 7
      Fast and secure
    • 7
      Requires DllImportAttribute for getting stuff from unma
    • 33
      Verbosity
    • 27
      NullpointerException
    • 17
      Nightmare to Write
    • 16
      Overcomplexity is praised in community culture
    • 12
      Boiler plate code
    • 8
      Classpath hell prior to Java 9
    • 6
      No REPL
    • 4
      No property
    • 3
      Code are too long
    • 2
      Non-intuitive generic implementation
    • 2
      There is not optional parameter
    • 2
      Floating-point errors
    • 1
      Java's too statically, stronglly, and strictly typed
    • 1
      Returning Wildcard Types
    • 1
      Terrbible compared to Python/Batch Perormence
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      C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers.

      What is Java?

      Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

      What is Stan?

      A state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation. Used for statistical modeling, data analysis, and prediction in the social, biological, and physical sciences, engineering, and business.

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