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Re:Juice – Oberon JIT browser plugin (1996) by mypalmike on Friday February 02, 2024 @05:14AM (#39227074)
To be fair, Java didn't have generic types when Juice was announced.
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Re:Juice – Oberon JIT browser plugin (1996) by jbverschoor on Friday February 02, 2024 @05:17AM (#39227091)
Nor enums.

The thing that made Java great were conventions (file per class etc) and its standard library (esp collections)

Unsurprisingly, that is exactly what made Ruby great

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