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		oezi on Nov 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Graphics for JVM It failed because,... A.) ...they never figured out a good/unobtrusive update process for the JVM itself. B.)...Sun faltered when they picked up steam. (Remember when IBM threw 1 billion USD at writing Eclipse in Java?)

cocoa19 on Nov 17, 2020 [–]

And Eclipse was hands down the best tool for Java development... Until it was left to rot, and JetBrains came along.

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