Java is dying and it paid off my mortgage

by nkzdon 4/8/2025, 8:58 PMwith 22 comments

by PaulHouleon 4/8/2025, 9:02 PM

Not dying at all. Other languages talk a good game about threads, Java has a good story about threads... and virtual threads. I'm writing large complex applications instead of fighting with the borrow checker to do what Software Tools did in the 1970s. When Valhalla drops, the performance gap will close a bit more.

by stefanos82on 4/8/2025, 9:15 PM

Far from dying...let's just say, is no longer in the spotlight; but it's definitely there, for sure!

by m463on 4/9/2025, 6:12 AM

I remember when sun came out with java in the mid 90's.

I was always dumbfounded this "scripting" language, from Sun, didn't let you write code like:

   #!/usr/bin/java
   ...
I suspect lots of unix (linux) would be different if this had happened.

by nunezon 4/9/2025, 5:21 AM

COBOL, FORTRAN and C are still widely used. A butt ton of code at Google is written in Java. Java ain't goin' nowhere.