In the mid to late 90s I was spending the beginnings of my tech career writing code in VBScript, running on IIS (ASP). I wanted access to larger distributed sys

In the mid to late 90s I was spending the beginnings of my tech career writing code in VBScript, running on IIS (ASP). I wanted access to larger distributed systems, and I knew I could not do this with the Microsoft products. I learned Java on the side over a couple weeks by reading the Sun Java Tutorial, then landed myself a job at a large energy provider. That changed the course of my career forever. I will always be happy Java exists. I switched away from it over the past 5 years, but it still did me good. I do write a lot of Kotlin code now, so I haven’t abandoned the JVM. :-)