according to James gosling (the creator of Java) in a interview from a year or two ago with lex Friedman he said he wanted a C++-like language but without its pitfalls: pointers bugs and bad concurremcy/synchronization primitives. This was to bring enterprise programmers (who mainly used c++ at that point) to the JVM ecosystem. He expected an explosion of jvm languages after that which, sadly, didn't happen. I think there were more pitfalls which I don't remember now.
Maybe he is saying bull now to look more cool, but he sounded rather convincing in the interview. I'd recommend to listen to it
Maybe he is saying bull now to look more cool, but he sounded rather convincing in the interview. I'd recommend to listen to it