Simon Willison’s Weblog

Why do so many reddit users hate java? The answers provide a good overview as to why Java has fallen out of favour with the alpha-hacker crowd.

Posted 15th December 2006 at 2:20 pm

Recent articles

I think "agent" may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now - 18th September 2025
My review of Claude's new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name - 9th September 2025
Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide - 9th September 2025

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