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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 o
by 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 agoThe 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.