Before Getting into development straight away.
We must learn the origin the customs and the way of Java Right from the start.
We must start first with the man behind it.
The Father of Java James Gosling was born in 1955 in Canada and later Joined Sun Microsystems in 1984 where he worked for 26 years.
In 1994 He got the Idea while writing a program to port software from a PERQ by translating Perq Q-Code to VAX assembler you know just normal stuff
He created the original design of Java and implemented the compiler (JAVAC) and also the Virtual machine (JVM)
Though it wasn't all sunshine. Java was acquired later on by Oracle from sun.
After this James Gosling decided to part ways with sun microsystems in April 2 2010. Since then he has taken a critical stance toward Oracle.
In march 2011 he joined Google for six months.
After he followed his friend Bill Vass and joined into a startup Liquid Robotics. Things were doing better for Gosling until the startup became too good, later in 2016 Liquid Robotics was acquired by Boeing.
Following the inevitable Mr Gosling left Liquid Robotics and joined AWS in 2017 as a Distinguished Engineer and later Retired in 2024
Being A creator comes with a lot of hardships and mishaps. Even though Gosling had differences with oracle because of being stripped off decision making authority. People still associate him Greatly with the JAVA language He is still the father of Java
Aside from all this he was still accredited for a lot of things
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- 2002: awarded The Economist Innovation Award
2002: awarded The Flame Award USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award.
2007: made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[32] The Order is Canada's second highest civilian honor. Officers are the second highest grade within the Order.
2013: became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
2015: awarded IEEE John von Neumann Medal
2019: named a Computer History Museum Fellow for the conception, design, and implementation of the Java programming language
Even with all the challenges Gosling remains an inspiration to many for his resilience including myself
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