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I don't think Java has ever faced as much serious competition as it did circa 2005 from PHP and Ruby. What caused Java's stagnation was Sun's decline (which bot

by pron 4y ago

I don't think Java has ever faced as much serious competition as it did circa 2005 from PHP and Ruby. What caused Java's stagnation was Sun's decline (which both reduced resources as well as made some big missteps), and as Oracle ramped up the investment in Java, we were able to get back to the roadmap (as well as come up with new ideas).

mwcampbell 4y ago
Do you not think Node.js in the 2010s was serious competition? After all, it combined the dynamism of something like PHP with a high-performance VM built by (IIUC) former HotSpot devs.
- pron 4y ago
  Yeah, you're right. Anyway, my point is that what caused Java's stagnation is not lack of competition, and what's caused its resurgence is not greater competition. Both were just a matter of resources.