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Apple is for ADA
Ball is for BASH
Crab is for C
Dog is for D
Elephant is for Ecsmascript
Fox is for F#
Goat is for Go
House is for Haskell
Igloo is for
...okay I got stuck there.
Java has Duke
Ugh, I accidentally got a fake transparent background. Oh well.
Branding fail so bad that everyone forgets that Java even has a mascot.
I thought it was a cup of coffee? A hipster barista in 90’s Memphis style illustration would be most accurate I think.
Damn, I went searching online for some examples and got nothing that was really from back then. Just shitloads of AI vaporware slop. Time to dig out my old design mags I guess.
That would be the natural assumption, but Sun didn't do it. I think there is a logo for books, but not one by Sun/Oracle.
There are dozens of us! Millions of devices and dozens of us know about Duke!
Fun fact, Duke is released to the public. I forget in what way exactly, but Oracle freed them (him? it?).
Igloo is for Idris
Jigsaw is for Java
King is for Kotlin
Lion is for LUA
Monkey is for ...
Monkey is for MoonScript
N is for Node.js
O is for Objective-C
P is for Pascal
Q is for QBasic
R is for R
S is for Swift
T is for TypeScript
U is for ...
Umbrella is for UnrealScript
Van is for VimScript
Water is for Webassembly
Xylophone is for Xod
Yacht is for YASS
Zulu is for Zig
Okay, I had to consult Wikipedia's list of programming languages for some of those.