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by Danidada 1375 days ago
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
2 comments
jvanderbot 1375 days ago
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?
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ncmncm 1375 days ago
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.
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LeonidasXIV 1375 days ago
That sounds suspiciously like Rob Pike and Go coders.
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ncmncm 1374 days ago
Rob is a careful student of history.
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wiseowise 1374 days ago
> 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.

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