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by jdlshore
1278 days ago
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Eh... your hate is blinding you. Java was the first mainstream garbage-collected language. Not the first GC language, but the first one to get serious traction. It started the post-C++ era. That was a pretty bold design decision for the time, and one that worked out. The VM was another big one, and it also worked out. |
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GC wasn't a failed experiment. OOP extremism was. And the latter is a bigger Java standout than GC.
Python predates Java and is still mainstream, and while (mostly) not garbage collected, but reference counted, language design wise it's not a big difference. There have been GCd Python implementations, proving that.
Being successful is not really a language design choice, so I wouldn't count that.
> The VM was another big one, and it also worked out.
As I explain in the blog post, the VM was a colossally bad mistake. The inspiration for the VM sounds like it was better. So looks like they took the ball and started running in the wrong direction.