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by torginus 1554 days ago
It's so weird to see that Java was architected to bend over backwards to be able to run on multiple CPU architectures, which was a feature nobody actually used for decades (well mobile devs did, but they were still targeting a homogenous arch), and now, when there's actually demand for this from the backend side, it doesn't work due to other components in the system.
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I worked on an enterprise software system written in Java, our customers ran it on Solaris, Linux, AIX, and some even ran it on Windows, and developers on OS X. Same binaries, worked everywhere.