Java's Greatest Missed Opportunity?

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 9, 2007 @05:56AM from the steaming-cup-of-dissapointment dept.

jg21 writes "It looks like Bruce Eckel has hit the nail on the head again. No sooner did he finish stirring debate by writing about the 'departure of the Java hyper-enthusiasts,' previously discussed here on Slashdot, than he now rubs salt in the wound by highlighting in AJAXWorld Magazine how and why Java missed its golden opportunity to become the language undergirding Rich Internet Applications. He comments: 'We must ask why Java applets haven't become ubiquitous on the internet as the client-side standard for RIAs....This is an especially poignant question because Gosling and team justified rushing Java out the door (thus casting in stone many poorly-considered decisions) so that it could enable the internet revolution. That's why the AWT and Applets were thrown in at the last second, reportedly taking a month from conception to completion.'"

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Re:Java was just too heavyweight by fimbulvetr · 2007-02-09 07:26 · Score: 0, Troll

Whoopdy fucking do.

10 years of convincing people that applets are "fast" has resulted in them realizing they really aren't so fast. So now instead of users having 10 seconds of a non-responsive grey page rendered by their browser, they get a 7 year old shitty animated icon laughing at them for making the shitty mistake of visiting the page.