Nemeski to [email protected] • 6 months agoOracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first timewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square146fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: programmingtechnology
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkOracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first timewww.theregister.comNemeski to [email protected] • 6 months agomessage-square146fedilinkcross-posted to: programmingtechnology
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•6 months agono, they’re completely unrelated, some devs liked the name java and put it into the name of the new language they were working on, nothing beyond that
minus-squareArghblarglinkfedilink0•6 months agoNo, I know that – I honestly want them both to die :p Both have been a blight on software development for decades.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•6 months agoI don’t have a problem with Java, and you can get Oracle free versions of Java. JavaScript on the other hand is a blight as you say.
minus-squareKogasalinkfedilink0•6 months agoYou can get blight free versions of JavaScript too, if you use TypeScript.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-26 months agoYeah, for a short time there the word ‘java’ was very ‘in’. Marketing hipsters at the time wanted to use it in everything, just like the word ‘AI’ now.
no, they’re completely unrelated, some devs liked the name java and put it into the name of the new language they were working on, nothing beyond that
No, I know that – I honestly want them both to die :p
Both have been a blight on software development for decades.
I don’t have a problem with Java, and you can get Oracle free versions of Java.
JavaScript on the other hand is a blight as you say.
You can get blight free versions of JavaScript too, if you use TypeScript.
Yeah, for a short time there the word ‘java’ was very ‘in’. Marketing hipsters at the time wanted to use it in everything, just like the word ‘AI’ now.