{
  "id": 4788091,
  "title": "The good ol’ days of building Java",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/the-good-ol-days-of-building-java",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-01T05:08:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Stack Overflow Blog",
    "slug": "stack-overflow-blog",
    "url": "https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/01/the-good-ol-days-of-building-java/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was strategically important for the Java team to create a cross-platform ABI to compete with Windows NT, and how applets were initially just an interesting demo.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}