“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
Ain&#x27;t Java the 2nd most used language in the world, after JavaScript?  The enterprise world uses Java everywhere.  Java powers pretty much the entire banking infrastructure.<p>Aren&#x27;t there billions of Java smartcards that people carry in their pocket&#x2F;wallet and use on a daily basis?<p>Aren&#x27;t there billions of Android apps installed that are, basically, Java?<p>One can dispute the numbers a bit but...  How is Java not one of the biggest success story ever for a programming language?<p>I&#x27;d also add: it&#x27;s kinda funny to see so many programmers hating on Java and thinking that, somehow, Java is dead or dying, yet on a daily basis they&#x27;ll use one of the JetBrains tools, written in Java, to work on their &quot;non Java&quot; code.<p>I do not only think he was right to lose sleep over it: I think Java delivered.