“It’s extremely busy and verbose” were the reasons. I agree with those reasons and I’ve always felt Java sucks because of them. When Java first came out I was

“It’s extremely busy and verbose” were the reasons. I agree with those reasons and I’ve always felt Java sucks because of them. When Java first came out I was a C/C++ programmer and was excited to learn it. Very quickly became disillusioned because it was incredibly verbose. I hoped the language would evolve quickly but it took FOREVER. Meanwhile Microsoft introduced C#, whose v1 looked like a copy of Java, and very quickly evolved the language to make it much better. They did what I hoped Sun Micro would do. But Sun just sat there and twiddled their thumbs.