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True facts regarding Java. When Java came out, it hindered the ability for the other programming languages to grow. Till date, Java stays one of the most popula

• fulafel 4y ago
  Are you referring to this? > Smalltalk wasn’t the only casualty of the “Javapocalypse”: Java also marginalized Eiffel, Ada95, and pretty much everything else in the OOP world I think it stifled one set of languages and helped others, while helping the "enterprise software" c++ crowd acclimatize to 70s era inventions things like memory safety and garbage collection. Python, Ruby, and JVM langugaes like Clojure and Scala were helped I think.