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The idiom "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies to many situations, but books are not one of them.
by crthpl 3y ago
The idiom "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies to many situations, but books are not one of them.
- maxwell 3y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html#:~:text=book%20by%20its%20cover,-%22%20originated%20in%20the http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html#:~:text=book%20by%2...
- quickthrower2 3y agoTIL: #:~:text= Are there more of these, what is this magic!
- Crespyl 3y agoIt's a "text fragment"; started as a Chrome thing, other browsers are slowly adding support. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments
- mcmoor 3y agoSo, what actually makes Java successful despite all of these?
- bdw5204 3y ago2 things (in the corporate world): Android and Spring framework. It's also basically OOP the language which means large enterprises are biased towards it. Other factors are that it has very strong built-in libraries and has become a popular choice for "how to program" classes so lots of people are familiar with it. Having a similar name to JavaScript (the web's native language) also helps.
- n4r9 3y agoThese are reasons for why an individual hacker might not take to a language. They don't factor in to a large organisation's choice of language. And to be honest, quite a few of these arguments would apply to Javascript as well.
- diego_sandoval 3y agoAt least he was totally right about Java not being a hacker language.