JWZ's 'Java Sucks' Essay from 2000 Resurfaces on Hacker News

Summary

This is a link to Jamie Zawinski's (JWZ) personal website, specifically a page originally titled 'Java Sucks' dating from approximately 2000. The page appears to have been replaced or obscured — the current content is largely incoherent filler text and includes an anti-scraping JavaScript loop, with the HTML title set to 'PRIVATE' and meta tags explicitly blocking indexing and AI training. The original essay was a well-known critique of the Java programming language from the early 2000s by JWZ,