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0 pointstiffanyh3y ago0 comments

C++ was all the rage in late 90s / early 00s.

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Java was all the rage then. C with classes was dominate (not to be confused with C++), but java was the rage. Just like today Rust is all the rage, but it isn't as popular as C++ in the real world.

FpUser3y ago

I remember that. What puzzled me that it was the time when software written in Java ran up to 100 time slower than native processes. Now it is not nearly as bad.

I had very interesting reaction from CTO of one Telecom when I showed them a prototype running on PC handling the same amount of transactions without breaking sweat as their Java backend equivalent that ran on beefy HP servers.

ethbr03y ago

Java is a language designed so that IBM can shovel interchangeable programmers into a furnace and produce something functional.

Once you start with that goal, all the compromises and quirks make more sense.

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lupire3y ago

Microsoft was big into C++ then.

C++ was terrible at cross-plaform (incompatible support for language futures across compiler), which was a deal breaker for many orgs.

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