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by saagarjha 2177 days ago
Enough that Apple offered Cocoa bindings in it for a while!
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At one time, I think that Steve Jobs wanted Java to be a native language for Apple development, but it ended up getting sidelined by Objective-C.

Developers had a difficult time, adjusting to ObjC. It’s very different from C, whereas Java was familiar to almost everyone.