Originally posted by kit james:
In terms of development speed, difficulty, and performance compare the dot Net ?
Development speed: For windows platform, .NET is a bit easier to develop (depends a bit on what you want to do). However, the difference in most cases isnt that big plus Java has its cross-platform ability which makes it superior in my view.
Difficulty: Java and C# have about the same learning curve imho.
Performance: Difficult one. I can say that in my experience there isnt much difference, which is true, but only a really independant thorough
test would prove it either way. And since those tests are very expensive, the chances of them being truly independant are about 0.