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Re:Old Geek by flukus on Thursday September 15, 2016 @07:50AM (#12505236)
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.

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Re:Old Geek by redditmigrant on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:13PM (#12511590)
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.
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Re:Old Geek by guelo on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:10PM (#12507319)
.Net is pretty much Java. So after all the legal and marketing turmoil young you was basically right.
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Re:Old Geek by flukus on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:38PM (#12510030)
They hype around java was being cross platform and making the OS choice irrelevant, .net had the opposite effect.

When I look at all the apps installed in my computer, very few are .net apps.

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