Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:48PM
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The original promise of Java was cross-platform user-facing visual apps. (Which is why Gates was scared of it.) This promise certainly failed to deliver.
Instead Java is now Cobol 2.0, but nobody lost sleep over this fact.
Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by PaulHoule on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:10PM
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There was the idea that Java Beans would work like the COM model does for Visual Basic and it would be straightforward to build a GUI to build form GUIs.
That never happened, but few visual UI builders have come close to what Visual Basic was in 1995.
I liked JavaFX but I don't miss it.
I remember getting into an argument in the men's room of the basement of center Ithaca with two guys who were saying that Java was overhyped and I was saying "believe the hype"
That time I was right.
Java was one of the first programming languages to be specified by adults. (e.g. they didn't know how to specify PL/I and make it work, C worked by accident, ...) When researchers realized the memory model was broken the first instinct of the Java creators was "let's fix it" while other languages first made excuses and waited a decade + for a "fix"