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Is Java really as popular as these slides imply? I had no idea. Or is that only for Google? (or Sun, I guess maybe?)

• dmoney 19y ago
  I've seen some statistics (I forget where) indicating it's now about twice as popular as C++. My (East coast) company recently decided it was a "Java shop."
  • s3graham 19y ago
    Crazy. My first job was Java for about a year (in 1996-97) and after that I ignored it and hoped it would go away and not overtly hurt me. The bizarre thing is that I don't know of any software that I use other than (I believe) gmail that's actually written in Java (and I don't think gmail qualifies as a "normal" Java deployment).
    • ardit33 19y ago
      as much as people rave about rails, python or any other language, the web actually runs mostly on java (and some .net). Most financial sites, brokerage houses, banks and many more websites run with java. Just b.c you hear about rails or django all the damn time, doesn't mean they are widely used. They are just trendy frameworks. (Php is the other language that run the rest of the web.).
      • thorax 19y ago
        I tend to think of it more as "php runs the internet", "java runs the intranet". Neither of these are the darlings of most hackers. All hackers should know how to code them, though (IMHO).
• davidw 19y ago
  Yes: http://www.langpop.com/ http://www.langpop.com/