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Java had the advantage that it not only worked everywhere, it had just so incredibly much built in. The Java standard libraries alone provide more functionality
by kuschku 9y ago
Java had the advantage that it not only worked everywhere, it had just so incredibly much built in. The Java standard libraries alone provide more functionality than in many other languages all third party libraries for a feature can do combined. Building cross-platform apps in Java is actually easy, even easier than in Delphi or VB.
Nowadays, in Node, we don’t even have timezone handling properly built in, or UI frameworks. Or anything.
- pjmlp 9y agoSure, one of the reasons I liked it, was because of the chaos that still was writing portable C or C++ code back then. But when focusing on the PC market, it felt a step backwards being interpreted, the JIT only came in 1.3 and AOT compilation has only been available in commercial JDKs (gjc was never that good). Let alone the whole story with value types. Thankfully, I have been able to avoid Node thus far.