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2026-02-19 15:28 UTC
@raymaccarthy @agowa338 @blinry yeah, J++ was an attempt to EEE Java, especially for “applets” in IE, that got shut down by the court ruling. dotNET and C# were the subsequent attempt to build a better mousetrap, which largely succeeded in terms of capabilities, but failed to replace Java in adoption because it was closed-source and windows-only
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-02-19 17:59
@ShadSterling @agowa338 @blinry And if C# had been crossplatform and more liberally licenced, Android might have used it instead of Java. Then Oracle would not have sued Google. But Symbian devs were using Mobile Java and Google wanted them. Sun had the odd idea that Mobile Java was free-sh, Desktop Java was free-ish, but it was forbidden to use the Desktop version on anything else. It never made sense.