It's perfectly reasonable to extrapolate just a LITTLE bit and imagine a very large factory that can make every part used in the factory itself, from the ICs in the control circuitry to lubricants for the moving parts. Said factory already exists, it is just distributed across the world and currently depends on human labor for many things.
Amazing thing is, many cells in your body are such factories!
Java was intended as a language to control hardware interfaces and creating web applets is not its main application.
Java produces easily readable code - which can be modified after months of developer-inactivity without checking up on language skills first.
On the hardware side of things we've seen java doing wonderful things in the world of embedded systems.
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It's perfectly reasonable to extrapolate just a LITTLE bit and imagine a very large factory that can make every part used in the factory itself, from the ICs in the control circuitry to lubricants for the moving parts. Said factory already exists, it is just distributed across the world and currently depends on human labor for many things.
Amazing thing is, many cells in your body are such factories!
Java was intended as a language to control hardware interfaces and creating web applets is not its main application. Java produces easily readable code - which can be modified after months of developer-inactivity without checking up on language skills first. On the hardware side of things we've seen java doing wonderful things in the world of embedded systems.