🆚 .NET vs. Java
- 📈 .NET is twice as popular as Java.
- 🌎 .NET is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.
- 🌍 Java is more popular in Korea, Indonesia, and Estonia.
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About
.NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft used to build web, desktop, mobile, cloud, and IoT applications across 
Windows, 
Linux, and macOS.
It includes a runtime with automatic memory management, a large standard library and APIs, support for various languages such as 
C#, F#, and Visual Basic, and a package ecosystem with over 400,000 NuGet packages, along with frameworks like ASP.NET Core for web applications and .NET MAUI for cross-platform interfaces.
Java is a multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995, designed to run across different systems through the Java Virtual Machine.
It compiles source code into platform-independent bytecode executed by the JVM, enabling the "write once, run anywhere" model, and provides automatic memory management, built-in multithreading, strong type checking, and a comprehensive standard library for networking, I/O, and graphical interfaces.
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Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vatican in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Vatican in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.