25 Reasons Why Java is Still Around in 2023 (digma.ai)
from LadyLeeLoosh@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 12 Dec 2023 13:42
https://programming.dev/post/7158943

“There are only two kinds of programming languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” – Bjarne Stroustrup.

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balder1993@programming.dev on 12 Dec 2023 14:04 next collapse

The whole article seems a bit forced with many topics that are present in most other languages too. I don’t think “Faster release cycle” is one reason Java got where it is today.

floofloof@lemmy.ca on 12 Dec 2023 16:31 next collapse

  1. Write once, run everywhere (WORA)

There’s something fishy about that acronym.

snowe@programming.dev on 12 Dec 2023 17:52 collapse

Really weird to compare to Python and C/++ when Java’s closest competitors are definitely C# and Kotlin. If you were to rewrite that list comparing Kotlin and Java it would literally be nothing in favor of Java and all the same benefits for Kotlin plus more safety features. Honestly the whole article seemed forced, like @balder1993 said below. The part about java having ‘functional programming’ is also a laugh. It’s all based on interfaces, and you have to use terminal operations to do anything on a stream, it’s terrible design.