Conventional wisdom: “It’s a toy! Fine for internal tools, but you couldn’t possibly write real production code that way.” In 1998, they said that about Java. In 2006, they said it about Rails. What are they saying that about today?
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As I side note (which I really hesitate to even make, because it's entirely tangential to a good question), I don't think Java was ever that language. It had the backing of the biggest player in the dot-com boom, and was "the language of the future" almost from the get-go.
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The first semester core CS course at Brown was already taught in Java in 1997 when I took it. We were using it in "real production code" in the summer job I had in 1998.
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(If I had to pick a language for which that that was true in 1998, it would be Python, no question).
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