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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by AnimalMuppet on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:14PM (#25798905)
> I mean it was the language that was perfectly dominant and acceptable at the time

No. Java never was what you're claiming.

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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by WClayFerguson on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:56PM (#25799161)
If you don't think Java was ever dominant (and frankly I think it still is), then probably we just disagree about the definition of the word "dominant".
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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by AnimalMuppet on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:12PM (#25799961)
It was a dominant language. But you said "perfectly dominant", which I took to mean "the one dominant language". Java was not that - not overwhelmingly more popular than C++, for instance.
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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by WClayFerguson on Saturday January 16, 2021 @01:37AM (#25800566)
Java was perfectly dominant in it's realm only. Obviously Java is not competing in the realm of machine code generation at all, and assembly language should always exist too.

C/C++ is the perfect example of a language lasting multiple decades without each new generation trying to throw it all out and start from scratch, but simply evolving it.

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