Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by agumonkey on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:50AM
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But the server side position of java is already a strange notion of success, as mentioned above java wasn't meant to live there. Hence the parallel with PHP, its mod_php was the reason admins installed it on servers, because it was easier and leaner (compared to mod_perl), a happy accident.
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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by wanderingstan on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:01AM
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Indeed. Reminds me of an early 1997 interview I had about the future of Java, when it was trying hard to displace JavaScript in the browser (swing gui and such) and flash was already starting to beat it out.
https://wanderingstan.com/netguide-interview-february-1997
Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by jfengel on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:24PM
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I still wonder what would have happened if Java decided to take Javascript's approach by giving access to the DOM, rather than an entirely separate GUI mode.
Things like Google Maps and Gmail came as something of a shock. They were near-desktop-level apps entirely within the browser. That meant JS, not because of the language but because it was the only cross-platform system that gave access. It should have been possible to do that for Java as well, but they never really tried.