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anon1m0us on Nov 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Figh...

"Just for being compatible" is disingenuous at best.

Ask yourself, "Why did they copy the Java API? Why didn't they use Python or Go or Dart?" They invented Dart after all.

monocasa on Nov 18, 2019 [–]

Golang and Dart didn't exist at the time. And Google knows all too well how large Python projects break down, that's why they made Golang.

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