In the '90s, I despised Java and kept applets turned off because they took forever to download, and once downloaded, would make my machine freeze for a few minutes while the JVM started up.
It's not so much of a problem now that we all have broadband and fast CPUs, but in the '90s it was enough for me to bin Java as "a slow piece of shit" and avoid it like the plague. That probably contributed to it not taking off as a client-side web platform.
It's not so much of a problem now that we all have broadband and fast CPUs, but in the '90s it was enough for me to bin Java as "a slow piece of shit" and avoid it like the plague. That probably contributed to it not taking off as a client-side web platform.