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"a bit too trendy to trust" I imagine java was trendy also when everything was written in C++

• jeremiep 14y ago
  Back then, Sun had to spend a fortune to push Java down the throats of developers. Mostly by selling it to their clueless managers instead. Java was born out of a trend and still lives as one to this day, good thing only the corporate world really bought into it!
  • meaty 14y ago
    The reason its so popular with corporates is that most of the expensive problems are already solved so building software is sticking a few well proven components together with some glue. It's also good at managing memory for you, which is not something that can be said for most languages.
• meaty 14y ago
  When java turned up, we were all still writing c. C++ was still fairly unstable then. Microsoft's compiler was actually probably the best on the market and it was still a hunk of shit to the point that most people just did win32+c. On UNIX it was always C.