There's plenty of software worth somewhere between 10^11-10^12$ which is still working because all those legacy APIs still exist. Java is not <put the name of a

There's plenty of software worth somewhere between 10^11-10^12$ which is still working because all those legacy APIs still exist. Java is not <put the name of any other platform in permanent beta stage>. It prospered for 20 years and it will stay alive for another half of century, because it is conservative enough.