Java started out as a fad language for smart devices, then pivoted into a fad language for applets, and only then adopted the image of a boring server-side lang

Java started out as a fad language for smart devices, then pivoted into a fad language for applets, and only then adopted the image of a boring server-side language. You can see lots of weird stuff in Java's design, like the security model with classloaders, which is overengineered for server-side software but makes sense for smart devices and applets. So I'm not surprised to see experiments as part of Java.