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> As someone who was there in 2001, I just have to say: Java was never cool, and especially not at that time. It was so uncool they named JavaScript after it.
by xaduha 9y ago
> As someone who was there in 2001, I just have to say: Java was never cool, and especially not at that time.
It was so uncool they named JavaScript after it.
- wolfi1 9y agothat was earlier than 2001 I believe
- goatlover 9y ago1995. Interesting because Java was initially Oak, and JS was LiveScript. But then Netscape & Sun got together. Sun wanted Java to be the language in the browser, Netscape wanted an easy to use lightweight language, Brendan Eich thought he would be putting Scheme in the browser, and the end result of all that was JavaScript. But Netscape 2 was also supposed to ship with the JVM and a canvas-like platform for both to target. However, it was too ambitious, so only JS made it.