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Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

Randomly thinking about this the other day, still think it's crazy that was this huge important when I was first learning to program back in the 2000s, then was bought by in the 2010s when I was teaching for the certifications, and now in the 2020s it's become this depreciated legacy language. The success of the less-portable and less-learned copycat .Net and staying power of the older shows there was clearly a market for Java to continue, but the large was so much more interested in filing lawsuits against people who were doing things with the language than actually developing it further with modern features, they actually managed to push it into obscurity.

And we can't forget that this was a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR LOSS. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS had been spent to build up infrastructure to support the widespread use of this language across the industry, so when they dropped all support, and all of that became obsolete for no other reason.

Like remember this next time someone tries to tell you that capitalism is good and makes us all prosperous and builds all this infrastructure, capitalism destroys a lot of infrastructure too. Allowing large Capital movers to just make broad sweeping decisions like that that affect everyone else in the market so deeply and thoroughly, that basically torch billions of dollars worth of investment, is a chaotic environment, not conducive to long-term development or stability.

is bad for .

@Raccoon proponents of capitalism use Schumpeter's theory of "creative destruction". They would say capitalism destroys a lot of infrastructure, but that's good because it opens a way for better infrastructure.

Whether people desire and benefit from such destruction is left as an excercise for the reader.

@Raccoon I'm curious to hear you explain why Java is a "depreciated legacy language", cause I don"t share that experience

@Riduidel @Raccoon Defacto deprecation seems fitting for a defacto standard.

@Riduidel @Raccoon Indeed, #java now has a dynamic release process, without compromises on stability, performance... I would qualify it as the only rock solid, modern, maintainable, performing industry-grade language so far