Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages
Bienlein
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Wed Jan 23 13:03:18 UTC 2019
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 12:26:02 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
> Java's killer feature is consistent simplicity. That is how it
> was originally sold to great success. The ecosystem and tooling
> came later.
Also, the Internet was Java's killer application. No other
language had the libraries for accessing the Internet easily.
Then there is dynamic class loading. This made things a little
bit more unsafe at runtime but in general developer productivity
rose sharply, comparable to Smalltalk and by order of magnitude
compared to C++. At that time the competition for Java was only
Smalltalk and C++. Performance was nevertheless good, because of
runtime code optimization (HotSpot), which was a new thing
(albeit taken from Strongtalk, some Smalltalk high performance
variant)
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