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It's the defacto standard language at Amazon. There's no specific requirement that teams write code in Java and all the high level infrastructure makes no presumptions, but there's great internal support for it. And Amazon hired Gosling, so interpret that as you will.
Probably 'just in time' as this a Java thread.
I have been developing backend systems in Java, professionally, for the past 15 years. You should not base your career choice of being Java programmer or not solely on Java's popularity. There are genuine good reasons to learn niche technologies especially if you like them more. I think if you genuinely like something you are much more likely to succeed in that field and it is better for you no matter the size of the…
Games and IoT projects need backends as well, and it's not that unusual for those to be written in java.
C having 7% year over year growth seems hard to believe.
JS is shrinking and smaller than Visual Basic.NET?
I think that its time that the enterprise switches to full stack Typescript as a much better solution for developing enterprise software. Why use two languages and two different ecosystems for the backend and for the frontend, when we can use only one? It makes hiring a lot easier too. Let's face it the Java ecosystem is stagnated and has lost a tremendous amount of mindshare in the last 7 years. The level of modular…
I also have a question about the loss of mindshare. What new technologies are unaccessible from Java, but are accessible from at least 2 other languages (one of which is TypeScript / JavaScript)? A loss of mindshare would likely mean smart people aren't around to build libraries / integrations to the latest hotness.
My background: Originally a Java developer, now mostly Clojure. Also a Javascript (mostly react) developer.
> Concern 5: Java is too slow/consumes too much memory It's sad that this is still a thing. Compared to more trendy languages like Python and Javascript, Java is very light on memory. JS is known for being fairly fast and "light", but its actually 5-10x slower than Java and uses 5-10X more memory. And the whole "lightness" of it is a lie. Javascript's run-time is probably bigger and more complex than the JVM. Java us…
How efficiently does Java run when compiled to the browser platform? (e.g. WASM) (The browser is an important target these days, so imho this question must be addressed; besides, I want to be able to use the same code on the server as on the client; and sadly, the JVM isn't guaranteed to work in every browser).
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JVM uses as much memory as you allow. Use `-Xmx39m` to beat Golang.
My guess is that it won’t work with less than 1GB bc of spring boot, hibernate and all the rest of Java enterprise “microservice” goodness.
So you actually haven't tried to run an application with those libraries, and you don't even know what libraries that particular application is using, and here you are speculating about something you don't know and/or understand.
Was hopping to see more mentions of Android development... I’m currently weighing building an app in Kotlin or Java
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How efficiently does Java run when compiled to the browser platform? (e.g. WASM) (The browser is an important target these days, so imho this question must be addressed; besides, I want to be able to use the same code on the server as on the client; and sadly, the JVM isn't guaranteed to work in every browser).
I'm really excited for WASM, it should be nearly as fast as native code. Java and native code aren't far apart though, so I would say 1.5-2x faster generally
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I'm really excited for WASM, it should be nearly as fast as native code. Java and native code aren't far apart though, so I would say 1.5-2x faster generally
Ok, but I'm worried about the garbage collector, and if it can run concurrently without interrupting the program (as a native JVM would do it).