A question: how does a company allegedly so lawyer-first, tech-second manage to develop such cutting edge software? Oracle isn't normally a name that comes to mind when people think of programming language research.
> Oracle isn't normally a name that comes to mind when people think of programming language research.
Oracle has a very large, well-funded, and long-term PL research lab that consistently produces top-tier papers, and funds and collaborates with many academics.
If it doesn't come to mind when thinking about PL research then I can't think you're reading much PL research.
>so lawyer-first, tech-second manage to develop such cutting edge software?
Most DBA I met would not argue against Oracle having the best Database. Whether they would choose to use it for their projects is entirely different though. Something that is objectively good has zero to do with whether you like or dislike the company.
The amount of work that is going into JVM and VM research is absolutely insane. One VM to Rule them All, [1], that was submitted to HN in 2013.
