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Re:Ask HN: Anyone Making Money on Windows Phone 8 Apps? by jeremiep on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @06:27PM (#4907622)
Back then, Sun had to spend a fortune to push Java down the throats of developers. Mostly by selling it to their clueless managers instead.

Java was born out of a trend and still lives as one to this day, good thing only the corporate world really bought into it!

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone Making Money on Windows Phone 8 Apps? by meaty on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @01:55AM (#4909012)
The reason its so popular with corporates is that most of the expensive problems are already solved so building software is sticking a few well proven components together with some glue. It's also good at managing memory for you, which is not something that can be said for most languages.
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