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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Replying to @stephentyrone @sarahmei
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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Replying to @stephentyrone @sarahmei
Siri, define the dot com boom: Java implementations on giant Sun hardware with 8 figures in consulting costs that could have been done in Perl by a team of 4. To be fair: Java was not ready for prime time so that hardware was required.
2:10 PM - 5 Feb 2019
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