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by shrimp_emoji
963 days ago
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> It is a lot easier to pick up than C/C++. That's why corporations like Google invent "middle-ground" languages. Go from Google Java from Oracle C# from Microsoft These companies need some performance, but they can't hire enough C/C++/Rust devs (not enough exist). They're flush with JS/Python devs, but those languages are too slow. So they invent these abominable "middle-level" languages, with their insane bloat. For myself, I'm not interested in mediocrity to serve corporate interests, so I don't touch them. :p Extremes only: Python and C; Ruby and Rust; JS and C++. |
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Oracle acquired Java with Sun Microsystems, it was originally designed for embedded systems and the dream of “write once, run everywhere”.
The idea of a “hardware JVM” always fascinated me, I seem to recall some parallax microcontrollers that could run a subset of jvm bytecode back in the 90s, but never actually got to play with them.