by not_essence2 on Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:25 pm
([msg=70483]see Re: why does Solaris run a Java desktop?[/msg])
Here, I'll get into Solaris' designers' head(s): The company they work for is fairly aged, so of course the old programmers retire (and of course, they die, sadly). Because the times are changing, with a new multi-platform language called Java taking over, it's no wonder their newly hired programmers and designers, several of which have had experience working elsewhere, decide to take the easiest path, as Java runs on a lot of platforms, and they've used it so much because they've been taught it and it works so much, that there's no reason why not. Why did Java get popular in the first place? It had a self-feeding cycle, that's why: Someone's introduced to it, they discover that it works on pretty much all the projects they're designing, they use it everywhere, more people are exposed because they use it everywhere, and then the cycle starts again, taking over the programming world like a swarm of Von Neumann machines.