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So, in the startup world at least, I always hear JAVA IS DEAD! DOWN WITH JAVA! But this library, a bunch of Google stuff, most of Netflix's stuff -- it seems l

So, in the startup world at least, I always hear JAVA IS DEAD! DOWN WITH JAVA! But this library, a bunch of Google stuff, most of Netflix's stuff -- it seems like the real, this-makes-money work is still done in Java. Am I wrong? Is Java not dead at all?

vonnik 11y ago
If Java was dead, they wouldn't have to shout down with Java. Rumors of Java's death have been greatly...oh, you know. Java's in the running to be the world's most widely used programming language. This is, in large part, due to Android. http://news.softpedia.com/news/the-top-10-all-time-programming-languages-on-github-489852.shtml#sgal_0 http://news.softpedia.com/news/the-top-10-all-time-programmi... It so happens that a lot of companies have bet their stacks on Java. Java is the language of Hadoop. In addition to the companies you mention, there's Amazon, eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter. (There are plenty of other great languages that outperform Java in one way or another, but this post is just to make that point that Java is far from dead...) It's a stable language with a huge ecosystem, that's growing all the time. Our project, http://deeplearning4j.org http://deeplearning4j.org, gives it deep neural networks that run distributed...
brown9-2 11y ago
It's almost as if some of the stuff you hear in "startup world" is wildly inaccurate.
xiaoma 11y ago
Startups and huge multi-billion dollar companies have different priorities. If you have lots of money to hire a bigger team and you want to be able to handle lots of users on fewer machines then Java (or even C++) makes sense.