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I think it's incredible with hindsight how Java countered many of the mid 90s C++ problems, especially by avoiding multiple inheritance.

It remains a shame that it didn't launch with generics though, and I still think operator overloading would have been good. Had it done so I think a lot more people would have stuck around for when the performance improved with HotSpot.



> I think it's incredible with hindsight how Java countered many of the mid 90s C++ problems, especially by avoiding multiple inheritance.

This is because Java is based on an older language called Objective-C that doesn't have multiple inheritance :)

It's not based on C++, that's just the other OO language from the era people usually think of.


> This is because Java is based on an older language called Objective-C that doesn't have multiple inheritance :)

No it's not, certainly not any more than it's "based" on Smalltalk.


https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html




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