JackbyDev

You don't think the $500 million marketing budget Sun put towards Java has anything to do with its success? It was more than just luck.

For me it's the tooling surrounding it that makes it nice.

Yep, thanks to the AdoptOpenJDK project which really helped make OpenJDK builds available for all platforms. (It is now called Eclipse Temurin and Adoptium.)

You can do var thing = new Thing(); now.

Whenever I see things like this I think the man making the comment really has no idea how much unwanted attention young, single women get from random men. Especially if you're pretty and nice, men just take that as an invitation. For every genuinely polite person trying to be charming you have dozens of creeps just being weird.

You know, as soon as I hit submit I was like "that might also be a line from the song" but I was like eh, it's gonna be weirder if they see Deleted lol.

And blizzard stopped making them didn't they? (Separate topic.)

It's a line from the song.

Feels odd to include Pyre over Hades.

No.

But do we have reason to believe that it's not just giving them lies to get them to touch it? Is it tempting because it can do things or is it tempting because it tells people it can do things?

Sure