(Enterprise) Java grew a lot because the non-technical message managers got was something more like: An engineer can produce objects, and we can swap out object

(Enterprise) Java grew a lot because the non-technical message managers got was something more like: An engineer can produce objects, and we can swap out objects and their factories. That way we might one day in the future decide we want a faster object or choose a cheaper object. In the decades since, the 'progress' we've made can be summed up as dropping the J in JVM.