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Java’s James Gosling on Fame, Freedom, Failure Modes and Fun

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesgosling is revered as the original founder and lead designer of the https://thenewstack.io/java-usage-keeps-climbing-according-to-new-survey/. Now a distinguished engineer at https://aws.amazon.com/?utm_content=inline-mention, Gosling also made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynu9QEJSGX8 in early December at the https://www.reclojure.org/ virtual conference.

A lot of the guts of AWS is Java, and AWS has a pretty big Java team — and it’s all about performance.

But Gosling also shared one of his personal quirks during his appreciation for Clojure’s strong emphasis on functional programming.

“Being successful turns out to be a problem — because there are now billions of lines of Java code out there.