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Why Java endures: The foundation of modern enterprise development (github.blog)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by tonytins@pawb.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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Funny story, friend and I were just talking last night about how Java 8 is still used everywhere.

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[–] bradboimler@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I love Java and use it for hobby projects

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 2 points 3 hours ago

I tend to find languages that are best of feature. If i need a fault tolerant, quick to continue service I'd probably pick Erlang or Elixir. If i need meta programming I'm going with Racket or Haskell. If i need a quick and dirty graphical tool for internal use only I'm writing it in tcl/tk or python/tk. If it's system code I'm using C and Assembly.

The problem i have with Java is outside of Android development I never have the use case i have at my corporate job. There we need a widely know language (so we can hire) that is used in a lot of web services (highly tested and bugs caught early and very visible) that has a diverse ecosystem (less custom built code). None of those attributes are needed in my hobby work.