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		chgs on Aug 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine tea... Visual J++ was Microsoft’s Java

toyg on Aug 29, 2024 [–]

They were legally forbidden from going the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish route there, so they had to build their own version from scratch. C# exists because J++ couldn't.

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