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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Java comes up on the a16z Podcast, the MAD Podcast, Top Founders, A Product Market Fit Show, 20VC
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 57:50 Amjad Masad I didn't have a laptop at the time, and so every time I go to, like, wanting to learn Python or Java, I would go to the computer lab, download gigabytes of software,
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 33:27 Augusto Marietti We, we first build rate limiting and authentication, 10 times, hundred times, 50 times into the Python framework, the JavaScript framework, the TypeScript framework, the Java framework, whatever, PHP, blah, blah, blah.
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 9:24 Matt Bornstein We're talking Java here or what?
- ▶ 22:15 Matt Bornstein You know, we did file systems and some bits of operating systems and, you know, you learn Java, like Java was state of the art at the time. 2 times in the scene
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 37:07 Matt Biilmann To be a developer, you were like a Ruby and Rails or Java developer or something like that, right?
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:24:28 Marc Andreessen Uh, one was a little software company that I joined, and then the other was, um, I got an offer actually from Sun at the time, um, which, uh, had a, um, had a unit, they had a software unit of Sun at the time called First Person, uh, which…
a16z Podcast | Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)
- ▶ 5:39 Jyoti Bansal And what I found was, okay, the most pain is where they are these kind of medium to large companies which are building these complex distributed Java applications.
- ▶ 22:01 Jyoti Bansal Application monitoring for Java applications. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 12:57 Chris Dixon I was watching recently the, if you watch all the, ah, Justice Department stuff from, like, the late nineties, early 2000, Microsoft, they talk about Java the whole time, they never once talked about Linux, and Linux, look, every Android…
a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- ▶ 18:09 Dave Turetsky So maybe you're never going to be a Java programmer.
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 11:02 W. Brian Arthur I remember hearing one story that Sun Microsystems had developed Java, and naturally that cost a huge amount of money, so the guys with the green shades, the accountants, were saying, naturally enough, we should charge a huge amount of…
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 6:18 Benedict Evans And that was, again, supposedly going to happen with Java on the client, which tells you how long ago 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:07 Steven Sinofsky And, and you see the same thing within the, if you unfold a hospital, like looking at CTs or MRIs, like five years ago, that was a very complicated Java application that didn't really work, that needed a firewall, specially configured and…
- ▶ 12:59 Benedict Evans There's another argument that says, well, really, this should be, I mean, coming, coming back to, you know, the browser as a platform from, from Mark from 20 years ago, there was the parallel Larry Andreessen fantasy that you were going to…
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 1:52 James Waters SpringSource is like the most popular Java programming framework in the world, bought by VMware for pretty famous money, over four hundred million dollars as an open source project.
a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
- ▶ 33:49 Michael Rogers It's just another reason not to use Java, I guess.
- ▶ 34:02 Michael Rogers Basically, all the intellectual property associated with Java, they, they, they then claimed that the API, which is not the implementation, but the actual API surface, uh, of Java. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 14:31 Benedict Evans So instant apps, it's like, I mean, you know, this is, you know, you can make all sorts of jokes about this, like basically this is the reincarnation of Java. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain
- ▶ 2:51 William Mougayar Uh, in the same way that Java, uh,
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 1:52 Benedict Evans You saw the new phones, and you saw, my God, phones with cameras, and phones with color screens, and maybe Java, and you know, this was the point that everything was kind of taking off, and it was also just a year after the
a16z Podcast | A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
- ▶ 5:35 Matei Zaharia First of all, it's investing in the development of Spark, uh, you know, much in, in the, in a similar way as to how they've invested in other technologies such as, uh, Java or Linux.
a16z Podcast | Coding as Literacy
- ▶ 8:02 Chris Granger Um, so, when you ask a, a big group of programmers what the most popular language in the world is, you usually hear either C or Java, which is not even close.
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 9:01 Dave Jagoda So I, just looking through the documents like that before, there's, uh, features of Python, Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Go, um, and even hints of languages like Java and Lisp that they've, uh, incorporated into it, which is, uh, sort…
- ▶ 18:22 Dave Jagoda This, this is reminding me a little bit of Sun, which I would say was also a hardware company, where they realized Java might help them, help their hardware business along, but it feels like they didn't take it far enough.
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
- ▶ 9:05 Balaji Srinivasan One plausible scenario is that every Java API in Android gets rewritten to be a JavaScript API for Chrome OS so that you have a migration path, right? 5 times in the scene
An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- ▶ 1:15 Chris Dixon Um, you know, if you talk, if you look, go look at, like, the Microsoft, you know, the, all their discussions in the nineties, they were worried about Java, and they never, Linux never came up, right?
The Promise of AI
- ▶ 33:25 Frank Chen A compiler turns a high-level language like Python or Java into assembly code that the computer can run.