"It's amusing that Java managed to succeed despite having gotten almost all the defaults wrong." - @BrianGoetz * primitives * nullable references * mutable fields, params, etc. * non-private visibility * extensible classes If all that's wrong, how *did* Java succeed? 1/15
NB: Like yesterday's thread on serialization (), this one is plucked from a longer conversation with Brian. Here it is in full: youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTH8u… 2/15
NB: Like yesterday's thread on serialization (), this one is plucked from a longer conversation with Brian. Here it is in full: youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTH8u… 2/15
So how did Java succeed despite making some wrong decisions? Turns out, "wrong" is context-dependent. Today's context compared to 90s: * faster hardware * better JIT technology * more non-imperative dev experience And all of that by orders of magnitude! 3/15