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> Then why didn't Java do better? Its tagline was write once, run everywhere. Because Sun and then Oracle never though the web would kick off. Sun had the ball
by lenkite 2y ago
> Then why didn't Java do better? Its tagline was write once, run everywhere.
Because Sun and then Oracle never though the web would kick off. Sun had the ball of gold in its hands with the HotJava browser. But they thought the web was a fad and abandoned it. They should have continued developing HotJava and hard-pushed for the JVM inside the web-browser as a public standard and then Java would have been the absolute dominant language of Planet Earth today - the rest would be crying in a dark corner.
Another problem was the 2001 dotcom bubble burst. That crash made a lot of senior executives and investors think that the web was merely hype-technology and de-invest in most front-end efforts. Google proved them completely wrong later.