Nota Poin wrote on 02/15/2016 03:57 PM:
java bytecode is anything but inscrutable. There have even been decompilers written for it, as much as developers have tried to push them out of existence. It's basically assembly language,
It already literally was in the '90s. http://www.neilvandyke.org/jasmin-emacs/ :)
BTW, I was actually a Java early adopter (we were friends with Sun, back when it was called Oak, and for set-top boxes), and after Java was added to the mainstream browsers (sadly, not how it was in Sun's HotJava), I was an advocate, and wrote one of the first real application programs in Java outside of Sun, to show that Java could be used for application programming, during a phase when all the Web people thought it was just for animations and trivial "applets". (And decompilers go back that far, too, and one was played as a kind of protection, er, racket, with an obfuscator product.) Turns out that Java didn't need my advocacy, but now I'm an early adopter again, saying that Racket also has some neat merits, but many mainstream programmers can't see past Java (which most of their mainstream counterparts 20 years ago temporarily dismissed). I have similar stories about a couple other languages, currently in other phases of their rise&fall arcs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbfd75YRG34 (Don't blame the controller!)
They're referring to the infamous cheap MadCatz brand controller, dread of all friends invited over after school to play video games. With Racket, we want to you to use the same awesome $60 DualShock 3 model we use ourselves, and we go to some trouble to help you get acclimated, if you're accustomed to the MadCatz from your house.
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