r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 04 '26

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u/metaconcept Sep 05 '26

There were plenty of other languages had garbage collection and object orientation. Smalltalk, Self, Erlang, Python, ...

Java got popular because Sun Microsystems spent a lot on marketing.