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by Alupis 2205 days ago
That's a bit of a nitpick.

The developer no longer cares what architecture the program will run on, it just works.

You compile to bytecode, and stop caring. The JVM becomes your only target architecture, regardless of what actual architecture the system has.

That's unlike C or pretty much any (all?) other compiled languages around in the early 90's when Java was still Oak and Gosling was just getting started.