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miovoid | 2 years ago

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seabird|2 years ago

Java is one of the most widely supported ecosystems available. I'm genuinely curious why throwing in on one of the most successful languages currently in existence warrants "in 2023/2024?".

cvalka|2 years ago

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the_gipsy|2 years ago

All depends in your definition of successful.

xyst|2 years ago

Java will be relevant for a very long time. Fortune 500 infra mostly built on Java at this point. Google. Apple.

It’s a very easy language to learn but at the same time can produce some of the worst codebases to maintain.

Early versions of Java were kind of janky. Java 7 was notoriously verbose. But 8 and current LTS version have vastly improved performance of jvm and usability