Fun fact! Original Java, before they started adding autoboxing, had precisely one place which did heap allocation: the 'new' keyword (which is why it was a keyw

Fun fact! Original Java, before they started adding autoboxing, had precisely one place which did heap allocation: the 'new' keyword (which is why it was a keyword). If you avoided the keyword, you could be sure you weren't using the heap. ...which meant you could run (a limited subset of) Java programs on very, very small devices. 8-bit microcontrollers. Such as Maxim's iButton devices, or smart cards. My memory says that the standard is called kJava, but it seems to be ungoogleable these days, so I could be wrong (and Oracle ate all of Sun's documentation).