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    Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java

    The Stack Overflow Podcast · Oct 27, 2026 · 36 min

    Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electronics companies that inspired the Java virtual machine, and the evolution of garbage collectors that allow Java to handle large-scale concurrent memory management. Episode notes…

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