Mid 90s, when I was introduced to Java after C++. With the combination of garbage collection vs malloc/free, and just seeing that Java gave you 80% of C++'s fea

Mid 90s, when I was introduced to Java after C++. With the combination of garbage collection vs malloc/free, and just seeing that Java gave you 80% of C++'s features with 20% of the complexity, I knew that it was going to be big and take over C++ as the language for company and enterprise development.