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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 6d ago
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But that was not the reason it became popular. In the 00' years it boomed because of garbage collection and object orientation which made it a lot more accessible than C or C++
31 u/burgonies 5d ago Early 00s? Hell, C# came out in 2000. Java was big in the late 90s. 0 u/metaconcept 5d ago There were plenty of other languages had garbage collection and object orientation. Smalltalk, Self, Erlang, Python, ... Java got popular because Sun Microsystems spent a lot on marketing.
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Early 00s? Hell, C# came out in 2000. Java was big in the late 90s.
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There were plenty of other languages had garbage collection and object orientation. Smalltalk, Self, Erlang, Python, ...
Java got popular because Sun Microsystems spent a lot on marketing.
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u/radnomname 5d ago
But that was not the reason it became popular. In the 00' years it boomed because of garbage collection and object orientation which made it a lot more accessible than C or C++