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by krzyk 199 days ago
What Google did was similar what Microsoft did back in the days. Marketing something as Java, but wasn't Java.
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It incredible how far the "Do not evil" marketing won the hearts of computing nerds, Google only got positive karma for doing with Android exactly what Microsoft did with J++.

To this day Android Java is not fully compatible with Java proper, and Kotlin became Google's version of C#.