Derek

It's pretty funny, because it's a great language for the wrong decade. It's literally a language that redresses all the grievances against C that were made in the '80s and '90s. But thirty to forty years later, we already fixed those problems and more, and Google came along to say "we have fast compile times, and you can read function signatures aloud," as if that revolutionized the industry.

Had Pike and Thompson released it in 1994, though, Java probably would've never stretched outside of applets.

That said, I do appreciate some of the tooling, like the "oh, we're reformatting this so that everybody's code matches, because you arguing about coding style is wasting everyone's time" thing.