[Danidada]

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

[jvanderbot]

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]

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]

That sounds suspiciously like Rob Pike and Go coders.

[wiseowise]

> 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.