In the mid 90s, when Java and its virtual machine started making the rounds outside of academia, the reaction from the Serious Software People™ was swift and predictable: this is a toy. You can’t do anything real with it. You certainly can’t run production systems on it. And you definitely - absolutely - cannot trust a garbage collector to manage memory for you.
I was an early-career developer at that time, and I was excited about Java. My computer science coursework had been all C and C++ (both languages requiring detailed memory management) but in my senior year, that one cool professor (there’s always one) taught a class on Java and I loved it.
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