“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
Ain'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't there billions of Java smartcards that people carry in their pocket/wallet and use on a daily basis?<p>Aren'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'd also add: it'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'll use one of the JetBrains tools, written in Java, to work on their "non Java" code.<p>I do not only think he was right to lose sleep over it: I think Java delivered.