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Only in the bubble of language fashion that is Hacker News, could the failure of Google Wave be attributed to their language choice. Billions of successful pro

• vegai 15y ago
  >Billions of successful projects run on Java. I will give you billion dollars if you can prove that. My personal guess (using my personal metrics) is that there are 10^3 to 10^4 successful Java projects and 10^9 failed ones.
  • maximusprime 15y ago
    In any event, the failed ones don't mean anything useful. Successful ones mean "You can succeed using this". The failed ones mean "This failed, could have been for a ton of reasons".
• catch23 15y ago
  amazon.com runs java since day 1, fairly successful too :-)
  • moeffju 15y ago
    Weren't they on Perl and Masonry in the beginning?