Re:Old Geek
by redditmigrant on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:49AM
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Its likely that someone who says "NO" all the time is right some of the time and its fair that they get credit for being right. At the same time, they need to be held accountable when something they said "NO" to turns out to be a really big deal. Im sure someone said Java is a fad when it was launched or that python was useless and so on.
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A lot of people were saying no to java, at least on the consumer desktop which was one of it's first big aims. That's one of the thing's that young, naïve me put down to old farts being out of touch.
Two decades on their C/C++ win32/x apps are running and no one has java installed in their desktop to run mine. They have every reason to be smug.
Re:Old Geek
by redditmigrant on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:13PM
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Obviously Java didn't succeed as a desktop application development language, but the JVM and the java eco system has succeeded by any objective measure. I see your point that what matters is what does a person say "NO" to.
.Net is pretty much Java. So after all the legal and marketing turmoil young you was basically right.