Re:Why I Like Java (2014)
by lostcolony on Monday February 21, 2022 @12:58PM
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HTTP as well. Added in Java 11 (2018), but that's still an insanely long time to rely on third parties.
com.sun.net.httpserver was added in Java 1.6 (2006) - comparable to the Python httpserver
Re:Why I Like Java (2014)
by lostcolony on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:36PM
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Hence why I said "http", as in java.net.http, as in, everything around an HTTP client.
It did set a new standard in a way that was very beneficial for the languages that came after it: you're not an ACTUAL language if you don't have a "good" standard library, and I can argue that "good" was defined by Java more than C++ or anything else at the time.
I also don't see any new languages, while more modernized, that have substantially pushed the envelope further to be the new gold standard of a minimum batteries included stdlib. All I could probably say is various threading/concurrency apis, but Java has added a lot of that too over the years.