[devnonymous]

> Couldn’t a Lindy enthusiast have gone “umm but isn’t Java too new and shouldn’t we just stick to C which is well trodden and understood??”

I think people often misrepresent history because they view it with the benefit of hindsight. People who chose to use Java didn't do it to embrace a revolutionary idea, they were embracing an evolutionary one. It seemed like a natural optimization step, rather than a clean slate.

Most Jave devs were proficient C devs who found the idea of a platform independent C quite appealing.

That's the Lindy effect. C (the essence of it) survives in Java and right up to JS/python/go.

In contrast consider Pascal, Fotran, Perl, COBOL, (and dare I say ... Lisp ?)

[t0mpr1c3]

Clojure is Lisp, Guile is Lisp, Racket is Lisp, R and Julia have Lisp under the hood; but the spirit of Lisp also lives on in Javascript, Ruby, Rust, and every functional programming language ever, plus all the languages that incorporated functional features including Python, Perl, and Go, and languages that didn't until they did, like C++ and Java. And Emacs.