[pjmlp]

I agree with you.

Before Java was known to the world, I already knew plenty of languages with closures, value types, GC,AOT compilation to native code, ...

But they all suffered from two problems, not being from known companies with geek credit and being commercial.

Java was from Sun (geek credit) and was free (as in beer), hence why it got adopted.

I think it would been great if Eiffel had got a decent market share,instead of just the DBC ideas.

But if I remember correctly they went after the enterprise, so the language was out of reach to many developers given what they used to charge for.