crowd, watching Microsoft buy key pieces of developer infra and commodify them as complements to proprietary extensions and azure, etc: 









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For those with no experience in this stack, can you explain what it did right (and wrong that may not be obvious)?
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Over simplifying: 1) 2nd mover advantage. Most (though not all) of the things that Java got right, it also got right. Many of the obvious things Java got wrong, it fixed. 2)Really excellent vertical integration of languages, IDE, database, web server, etc. One-stop shopping.
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The ISV aspect carried over seamlessly too, i.e. a culture of interoperable commercial component distribution that helped fill all the gaps that aren't satisfied by the platform, and in areas that OSS devs generally find unattractive
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