Why Java is still relevant

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Post by eranation » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 9:55 PM UTC

Re: Why Java is still relevant

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Post by eranation » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:04 PM UTC

This is one of my first posts, and English is not my native language, so comments not just on the content but also on the language are more than welcome.

Re: Why Java is still relevant

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:25 PM UTC

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Re: Why Java is still relevant

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Post by suyash » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:28 PM UTC

Java runs the world and runs on several devices from Raspberry Pi, embedded robots (java me) to Mobile Devices (Android) to Enterprise Software (Java EE) to Data Servers crunching Big Data (Hadoop).

Re: Why Java is still relevant

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Post by syberslidder » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:28 PM UTC

Java is still relevant because of how much code is written in Java.

Re: Why Java is still relevant

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Post by bitwize » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:34 PM UTC

Java will wane in relevance as Oracle turns it into a way to squeeze support contracts out of users (see the recent timezone-update kerfuffle).

Re: Why Java is still relevant

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Post by danso » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:37 PM UTC

eranation wrote: post #2

This is one of my first posts, and English is not my native language, so comments not just on the content but also on the language are more than welcome.

Speaking for myself in the U.S., the need to learn a new language other than English has become such an edge case that I always marvel when non-native English speakers put their work out for us to judge. Your writing is clear...more importantly, you have a great grasp of how to visually partition your essay, a skill that many writers, native English or not, could improve on. Great submission, even if I'd like Java to be less prominent :)

Re: Why Java is still relevant

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Post by vinceguidry » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:39 PM UTC

Why learn Java? Sure, there's lots of jobs out there for it, but there's also lots of Rails jobs too. Rails is more fun than Java, so if you're looking to expand your career opportunities, you're probably better off learning a tech stack that won't bore you to death.

Re: Why Java is still relevant

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Post by nemothekid » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:41 PM UTC

Also a lot of the de-facto Big Data/NoSQL/Distributed Computing stack is Java(/Scala). Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Neo4j, Storm, its actually pretty interesting to note that most of the popular nosql solutions are in Java. On top of that its the number 3 language on Github.

I'm not a huge fan of Java but I'd be pretty surprised if someone was saying Java wasn't relevant. Don't quote me on this, but its also the fastest language you are going to get without pulling out C/C++. When the author made the claim that Java was as fast as Go, I was a bit surprised. I wasn't aware Go had caught up to Java.

Re: Why Java is still relevant

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Post by dwyer » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:42 PM UTC

eranation wrote: post #2

This is one of my first posts, and English is not my native language, so comments not just on the content but also on the language are more than welcome.

In that case, "Why it saves you time?" should be "How does it save you time?" That was the only line in the piece that screamed "non-native English speaker" to me.