Yup, this brings back my academia years in 1998, sitting with KDE 1.0 and Java 1.1. It was mostly Java, then Perl as this fabulous scripting/glue language, teeny bit of C and MIPS Assembler for the low level courses.
replyWe didn't touch a fairly esoteric language called Python much. Because we saw the future. Java and IPv6 was about to change everything.
There was even a Microsoft Visual J++ (and later J#).
replyIt was definitely the thing for a while. Although I remember my very first steps with Java and Swing and my primary impression was "this is so slow".
Java really could have taken over the world, and it can be performant, too.
replyOne of the versions of the most popular game in the world is written in Java, and it's quite capable of being very fast.
Are you talking about minecraft? Minecraft was known for working only because it is so simple graphically compared to other games. It was said to allocate and deallocate hundreds of megabyte of memory every frame.
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