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Isn't this the problem Java was trying to solve? Why did that go out of fashion?
by TchoBeer 5y ago
Isn't this the problem Java was trying to solve? Why did that go out of fashion?
- criddell 5y agoIt did go out of fashion and I'm not sure why that is. I do have some ideas and opinions... AFAIK, JetBrains builds all of their excellent IDEs with Java + Swing. Old school for sure, but it works great. If I were building something new today, I would definitely consider Java on both the client and server sides.
- recursive 5y agoJava applets were one of the first and most visible ways that this was attempted. The user experience of applets was atrocious. Starting up the applet runtime browser plugin at the time would cause the whole system to stutter and stall for several seconds. I'm not sure if it was the single core architecture of the time, but I recall that the entire system would lock up while this was happening. I think that this single fact caused a lot of damage to the reputation of java in the general public.