Remember the Vasa [pdf]

Scroll down to page 3 for the story of the Vasa, an over-developed sailing ship that sank a few hundred yards into its maiden voyage.

Tangent: the Vasa Museum in Stockholm is one of my favorite museums in the world. Indeed, Stockholm may be the best cities in the world for museums outside of Washington, D.C.

c++ lacks competition the way java has, Kotlin,Scala etc. The competing languages in jvm ecosystem is probably making java . a better language and has somewhat made me more optimistic about the direction java is generally heading.