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		habibur on Sept 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RBoy: A Gameboy Emulator in Rust Before that -- every Java. and before that, every PHP. What was before PHP? Perl?

Macha on Sept 24, 2021 [–]

I'd put Java's initial trendy period as before PHP's, Java was more concurrent with Perl for that kind of interest. PHP had a fair amount of reacting to the verbosity and tedium of early Java/C++9x static typing in the community

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