3 ms·
The free part certainly helped adoption over time, but at the time Java first arrived everyone was conditioned to pay for IDEs and most compilers for that matte
by hodgesrm 6y ago
The free part certainly helped adoption over time, but at the time Java first arrived everyone was conditioned to pay for IDEs and most compilers for that matter. Java took off because of the reasons I cited up-thread rather than cost. It was initially marketed as a language for web browsers. Most of us just ignored that use case and put it to work in enterprise apps.
- fulafel 6y agoI wonder if there are surveyst to be found about IDE usage from those times... IDEs were common in some circles in the early 90s but less so in others. Java wasn't a very high level language even in those days - we had Perl, Tcl, Python, PHP, etc used for web and non-web things. And on the low level side we had C. IDEs were less used with those languages.