Java

includes Java ME, Java Virtual Machine

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Michael Rogers · said 40 times in 22 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Benedict Evans (8), Balaji Srinivasan (5), Michael Rogers (4), Matt Bornstein (3), Jyoti Bansal (3), William Mougayar (2), Dave Jagoda (2), Chris Dixon (2)

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Rogers: Oracle vs. Google Java lawsuit benefited Node.js
“That's been great for Node.js, though. It's just another reason not to use Java, I guess.”
Michael Rogers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 33:47 a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
Jun 28, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sun offered Andreessen a job on the team building Java's precursor
“I got an offer actually from Sun at the time which had a had a unit, they had a software unit of Sun at the time called First Person which was creating what became Java later with James Gosling.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 1:24:28 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
May 16, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bornstein: AI cannot solve legacy code migration due to lost context
“AI may be able to transpile, you know, COBOL to Java, but there's a huge amount of context in what went into creating that COBOL code that's been totally lost, right?”
Matt Bornstein May 16, 2025 ▶ 31:30 Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
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