Just adding up to those points. Compiling at the time was a problem. Adding a new library could mean hours of digging up to find out why you can't even link th

Just adding up to those points. Compiling at the time was a problem. Adding a new library could mean hours of digging up to find out why you can't even link the damn thing in your project - if that's even possible. That's before even talking about cross-platform. Java was also a modern OO language, safer to use than C++ and with everything you needed right there in the JDK, all of that backed with solid documentation ( internet was not what it is now, if you were the lucky few with access at all ) In particular, java had a great easy approach to threading out of the box, working everywhere.