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Java simply stole the show. It had GC, namespaces, huge ecosystem and free.

• mikewarot 6y ago
  Lazarus doesn't have GC, but strings are handled by automatic reference counts, and everything complex is an object with create/delete, so manual memory management isn't really a chore. There is a hierarchical namespace based on units, and also there is lexical scope.
• unnouinceput 6y ago
  When I first tried Java, 25 years ago, after learning Pascal/C/C++ at Uni first, my first pet-peeve with it was the fact that I could not declare global variables. Coming from Pascal and C/C++ that was a bummer. I had to declare a class then inside that class go declare my global variables. Imagine my frustration that instead of just typing "globalHandle = 25" I had to write instead "mumuClass.globalHandle = 25". Real productivity bump right there!