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   Raccoon🏳️‍🌈 (raccoon@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 07:22:38 JST Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

   Randomly thinking about this the other day, still think it's crazy that #Java was this huge important #ProgrammingLanguage when I was first learning to program back in the 2000s, then #SunMicrosystems was bought by #Oracle in the 2010s when I was teaching for the certifications, and now in the 2020s it's become this depreciated legacy language. The success of the less-portable and less-learned copycat .Net and staying power of the older #Python shows there was clearly a market for Java to continue, but the large #corporation was so much more interested in filing lawsuits against people who were doing things with the language than actually developing it further with modern features, they actually managed to push it into obscurity.

   And we can't forget that this was a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR LOSS. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS had been spent to build up infrastructure to support the widespread use of this language across the industry, so when they dropped all support, and all of that became obsolete for no other reason.

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     Raccoon🏳️‍🌈 (raccoon@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 07:22:38 JST Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

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     Like remember this next time someone tries to tell you that capitalism is good and makes us all prosperous and builds all this infrastructure, capitalism destroys a lot of infrastructure too. Allowing large Capital movers to just make broad sweeping decisions like that that affect everyone else in the market so deeply and thoroughly, that basically torch billions of dollars worth of investment, is a chaotic environment, not conducive to long-term development or stability.

     #Capitalism is bad for #Business.