Like or dislike Java, it has changed and transformed enterprise software fundamentally and remains one of the top used languages in the world. And I thought it

Like or dislike Java, it has changed and transformed enterprise software fundamentally and remains one of the top used languages in the world. And I thought it would happen the way it did. Python was already around back then in 1994, but nobody cared because Java had Duke and was being pushed as the new idiom for everything networked. Hacker's radar is a valuable instinct, but when a reputable commercial entity acts as a wise custodian, behind a technology with technical merit, effort can easily trigger and accelerate grass root adoption.