On: Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in the 1990s?

[olavk]

I'm one of those who prefer HTML/CSS/JavaScript to Java applets! It is interesting that MS for a while heavily pushed JavaScript and dynamic HTML in order to undercut Java...until they belatedly realized they had creating something which was just as bad to the Windows lock-in.

[pjmlp → olavk]

The irony is that Applets are back, now they are called WebAssembly.