On 06/02/2015 09:43 AM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
<[email protected]>" wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 13:37:47 UTC, ketmar wrote:
and there was a thing that allows to use real applications without
installing them... java web start! way too ahead of it's time, though...
And 0install. (Though I admit I haven't checked in on that in a few
years. But I always wanted to see that, or something like it, succeed.)
Java got itself a bad reputation in the 90s by providing a really poor
implementation.
Over the years, I've noticed that one of the best ways to kill an idea
is to get everyone onboard a really, really bad implementation of it.
(Ex, see: "email" vs "exchange server and webmail clients", or "static
type system" vs "C++ and Java". Or IMHO: "desktop/laptop computers" vs
"every major desktop OS in existence" ;))
