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Bizarre choice of language even in 1996. Guess even they weren't immune to all the enterprise and WO-RA and OOP hype back then. What's it written in now?
by nbevans 12y ago
Bizarre choice of language even in 1996. Guess even they weren't immune to all the enterprise and WO-RA and OOP hype back then.
What's it written in now?
- tangesmadv 12y agoC++
- nostrademons 12y agoJava wasn't the hyped enterprise OOP language in 1996 that it became in the 2000s. Back then, it was a little-used experimental language, initially for mobile apps (remember Oak?) but gaining some traction in applets. Sorta like C++, but they'd removed all the tricky bits. I remember picking it up in 1997 and thinking how elegant it seemed compared to C++. It was basically like Go is now. As for what it's written in now: mostly C++ but some Java in the webserver and auxiliary services. Other Google products are mostly Java. Most internal tools were Python but a bunch have been recently rewritten in Java. Go is catching on with some early-adopter teams.