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I knew Gosling when he resided in Calgary. A very bright guy but he was also extremely possessive of Java. Even during the Sun days it was clear it was his ba
by sanguy 9y ago
I knew Gosling when he resided in Calgary. A very bright guy but he was also extremely possessive of Java. Even during the Sun days it was clear it was his baby, and nobody else’s.
I can imagine him being very frustrated at oracle and google where motivations are different enough to not cause his ego to be fed.
And as much of a scourge Oracle is they have moved java forward much fast and further versus Sun. All with gosling being sidelined. Perhaps that is part of his motivation for this article. Someone raised his baby better than he could.
- altotrees 9y agoTo the point about his ego not being fed at Google: when he went there, I wondered what he would be working on and if being another name on a roster if insanely talented engineers and scientists(Norvig, Pike, on and on and on)would help him grow and create more great things, or prove a frustration in some way. What was he working on there, I haven't read many details, does anyone know?
- nappy-doo 9y agoI worked at Google while he was there. It was common knowledge that he did about nothing while there. He wrote a document detailing why Google's development practices were broken, and left in under a (if I remember) year. Again, if I remember, he filed no bugs, committed no code, and wrote no design documents.
- altotrees 9y agoInteresting, I know he has been at a few places since then, wonder if his output has picked up? Getting into Java was my first taste of programming and I loved it, thought really highly of Gosling and still do. I just had a friend tell me this morning "heh Java is so dying." I swear I hear this every few months, but I fail to see it going anywhere. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough?
- cmcginty 9y agoI found an article that stated he was only at Google for 5 months.