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And RIIJ also gives you memory safety

• mdaniel 1y ago
  And plausibly sandboxing, too, since the JVM used to carry a policy language with it that allowed granting access by package (or by public key, IIRC), a vestige from its days of running in the browser. But they recently killed that whole feature due to disuse
• throw0101c 1y ago
  > And RIIJ also gives you memory safety I think Java helped in the mainstreaming of memory safe and GC languages, especially in more corporate spaces where C/C++ was still mostly still a thing. Certainly sysadmins were using a lot of Perl during that time, but for "real" enterprise software, I don't think dynamic-ish languages were as accepted. The use of Perl and rise of Python widened the Overton window.