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Teaching Java in abstract, useless lessons about OOP and inheritance is definitely bad. But I would say Java is as good a first language as python is. The purpose of first programm…

Is slowness of intelliJ IDEs attributable to Java alone? Android studio feels more sluggish than vanilla IntelliJ. I had to write an app in JavaFX for a course project. Compared to…

I don't think some obscure company's compiler for Java would be being sold on streets of Bangalore, much less likely in affordable price, much less likely in smaller towns. And, to…

> Java has AOT compilers since 2000, they just weren't free beer. "just" Tell me how me, a student in India with a cheap plastic laptop running Linux, could get straightforward acc…

AOT compiler; single binary; standard library and package ecosystem well suited for a subset of programming tasks, while being much lightweight and less verbose than Java / C#. Wou…

Something like a collaborative document editor or forms with non-trivial logic. Also, the interface of HN works because of its demographic.

Yeah it was EROS.

I remember reading about another, pretty old, microkernel OS which had persistent processes. It was probably a capability based OS. Anyone know what that was?