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according to James gosling (the creator of Java) in a interview from a year or two ago with lex Friedman he said he wanted a C++-like language but without its p
by Danidada 4y ago
according to James gosling (the creator of Java) in a interview from a year or two ago with lex Friedman he said he wanted a C++-like language but without its pitfalls: pointers bugs and bad concurremcy/synchronization primitives. This was to bring enterprise programmers (who mainly used c++ at that point) to the JVM ecosystem. He expected an explosion of jvm languages after that which, sadly, didn't happen. I think there were more pitfalls which I don't remember now.
Maybe he is saying bull now to look more cool, but he sounded rather convincing in the interview. I'd recommend to listen to it
- jvanderbot 4y agoThat may be why it was designed, but GP was talking about why it was adopted. Those are such totally different things that it's not worth comparing them. Lisp?
- ncmncm 4y agoGosling's chief skill always was to sound convincing. (Lord knows language design wasn't it.) The contempt he had for Java coders is hard to miss in writings from the time.
- LeonidasXIV 4y agoThat sounds suspiciously like Rob Pike and Go coders.
- ncmncm 4y agoRob is a careful student of history.
- wiseowise 4y ago> The contempt he had for Java coders is hard to miss in writings from the time. Can you send some examples? Curios to read those.