Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java

Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electronics companies that inspired the Java virtual machine, and the evolution of garbage collectors that allow Java to handle large-scale concurrent memory management.

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Check out CultRepo’s recently released Java documentary to learn more about the early history of the language and the engineers who built it.

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