Sunday, October 1, 2017

How Java Took Over the World

This happened in the Nineties, and I can remember it well. It was the confluence of two events - Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and the Internet. That seemed to have been handed down by God.

We didn't understand either one very well - but that did not stop us from worshipping them, as the coming of Heaven on Earth. Something we needed very badly - and something that did rescue us from Hell. Without our being aware of this at all.

Now that we have lived in this Heaven for awhile, we have realized that the Internet is here to stay - but the impact of OOP (and Java) - have been re-assessed.

Java is still the most popular programming language, and is used almost everywhere - but newer languages, such as Python and Go (with their Frameworks) are catching up with it.

The biggest thing in the world is now the Cloud. And Java does not fit very well into that.

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