I'm curious about what happened. IIRC, as you mentioned too in your reply, that Java was supposed to run in embedded devices. It was supposed to be lean and fast. But I can't imagine the modern Java doing that...
On the PC Front, James Gosling and cia made were an amazing team, but they pushed for very academic and cumbersome patterns that converged in the EJB architecture. Nobody in its sane mind would fall in love with that.
Two or three years later, the internet bubble fallout affected every technology.
Nowadays we've got Kubernetes with YAML for that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252103
>The background is that Terry Winograd, a professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University in Silicon Valley, had invited me to lecture on some of my work in 1998. After my talk, Terry invited me to tour his lab and meet some of his graduate students. One of the Ph.D. students was a bright young fellow named Larry Page, who showed me his project to enhance the relevance of web search results.
Many of those lectures are online. I was not able to find the 1998 one he mentioned, but here is one that Jakob Neilsen gave on May 20, 1994 called "Heuristic Evaluation of User Interfaces, Jakob Nielsen, Sunsoft".
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/vj346zm2128
He gave another one on October 4 1996 entitled "Ensuring the Usability of the Next Computing Paradigm", but I can't find it in the online collection, although it exists in the inventory of video recordings, however I can't find any 1998 talks by Jakob Nielsen in this list:
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82b926h/entire_tex...
Here is the entire online collection (it's kind of hard to search the 25 pages of the extensive collection, thanks to bad web site design!):
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog?f%5Bcollection%5D%5...
The oldest (most interesting to me) ones are at the end (page 25):
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/?f%5Bcollection%5D%5B%5D=a1...
Here are some of the older ones that I think are historically important and especially interesting (but there are so many I haven't watched them all, so there are certainly more that are worth watching):
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Bringing Behavior to the Internet, James Gosling, SUN Microsystems [December 1, 1995]:
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/bz890ng3047
I also uploaded this historically interesting video to youtube to generate closed captions and make it more accessible and findable, and I was planning on proofreading them like I did for this Will Wright talk, but haven't gotten around to it yet (any volunteers? ;):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrNeyuwA8k
This is an early talk by James Gosling on Java, which I attended and appeared on camera asking a couple questions about security (44:53, 1:00:35), and I also spotted Ken Kahn asking a question (50:20). Can anyone identify other people in the audience?
My questions about the “optical illusion attack” and security at 44:53 got kind of awkward, and his defensive "shrug" answer hasn't aged too well! ;)
No hard feelings of course, since we’d known each other for years before (working on Emacs and NeWS) and we’re still friends, but I’d recently been working on Kaleida ScriptX, which lost out to Java in part because Java was touted as being so “secure”, and I didn’t appreciate how Sun was promoting Java by throwing the word “secure” around without defining what it really meant or what its limitations were (expecting people to read more into it than it really meant, on purpose, to hype up Java).
There were also java realtime JVM with different latency promises.
Basically you had different versions of the JVM, optimized for its use case. I guess when Sun was bought by Oracle, everything died.
https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc
https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm/
Additionally there are plenty of others around,
And then there are flavours, like microEJ, Android, what Ricoh, Xerox ship on their copiers, BlueRay,....
Folks' hate for Oracle make them forget that the Java push into the industry was not Sun alone, rather Sun, Oracle, IBM trio.
Oracle has since early Java days embraced the technology, and even had their own flavour of JavaStation, called Network Computer.
Oracle has been a better Java steward than the alternative, being Java dying in version 6, losing Maxime (whose ideas live on GraalVM),...
No one else jumped to acquire Sun, and Google missed their opportunity to own Java, after torpedoing Sun.
Nowadays Google has their own .NET.