The other side of the coin: Java had, with java.util.Date/Calendar, the basics on board. If your project grew enough to need more than the absolute basic date

The other side of the coin: Java had, with java.util.Date/Calendar, the basics on board. If your project grew enough to need more than the absolute basic date handling, adding Joda was easy enough. Even so, the Date class provided enough of a lingua franca that other libraries could provide dates and times to their vallers without depending on Joda. Compare it with Java's logging framework hell. java.util.Logging used to be near-unusable, and the resulting cambrian explosion of logger frameworks continues to this day. Using a library will make you depend on some logging framework. So it is today normal for a Java program to contain 4-5 different logging frameworks, passing messages to each other.