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Danidada | 3 years ago

according to James gosling (the creator of Java) in a interview from a year or two ago with lex Friedman he said he wanted a C++-like language but without its pitfalls: pointers bugs and bad concurremcy/synchronization primitives. This was to bring enterprise programmers (who mainly used c++ at that point) to the JVM ecosystem. He expected an explosion of jvm languages after that which, sadly, didn't happen. I think there were more pitfalls which I don't remember now.

Maybe he is saying bull now to look more cool, but he sounded rather convincing in the interview. I'd recommend to listen to it

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jvanderbot|3 years ago

That may be why it was designed, but GP was talking about why it was adopted. Those are such totally different things that it's not worth comparing them. Lisp?

ncmncm|3 years ago

Gosling's chief skill always was to sound convincing. (Lord knows language design wasn't it.) The contempt he had for Java coders is hard to miss in writings from the time.

LeonidasXIV|3 years ago

That sounds suspiciously like Rob Pike and Go coders.

wiseowise|3 years ago

> The contempt he had for Java coders is hard to miss in writings from the time.

Can you send some examples? Curios to read those.