Sun spent a whole lot of cash advocating for Java. From some very nice, slick books to their own salespeople. It was the "internet language" with Javascript s

Sun spent a whole lot of cash advocating for Java. From some very nice, slick books to their own salespeople. It was the "internet language" with Javascript supposed to be its lesser cousin. I was going to teach a programming class at an out of the way community college in fall of 96 and someone from Sun called me about it. I took it they were a bit serious. It was also billed as a better C++. I don't think anyone since has put that much juice behind a language. The nearest thing is Apple with Swift which is still platform limited.