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Java 1.0 got people excited about applets, but Java 1.1 really got people going with server side. Microsoft joined in with Visual J++ and it was also obvious t
by projektfu 6y ago
Java 1.0 got people excited about applets, but Java 1.1 really got people going with server side. Microsoft joined in with Visual J++ and it was also obvious that it was going to be important on the Mac. (I couldn't get it to do anything useful on my IIcx, unfortunately.) Then, with the introduction of the HotSpot VM along with Java 1.2, it got really good.
These days, we're spoiled with our wide variety of available, free languages, but at the time most software for Windows was written in Visual Basic, Pascal (Delphi), or C++, none of which was free. And Windows was almost all of the desktop PC market share. The promise of write-once-run-anywhere also made Java really interesting.