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Java. C#, C++ will never be replaced. Want job security learn and code in these languages. Enterprises love them and are not going to incur cost to replace thei

Java. C#, C++ will never be replaced. Want job security learn and code in these languages. Enterprises love them and are not going to incur cost to replace their code-bases with anything else.

rusk 8y ago
Java code is a bitch to write from scratch but it never dies.
- simonh 8y ago
  Oracle's commercial licensing department is relying on that fact.
TuringTest 8y ago
People said the same thing about COBOL. It was replaced anyway. You're using a really short version of "never".
- asien 8y ago
  Banking and Government are still making services in COBOL . It’ll never disappear.
  - 3rdAccount 8y ago
    There are a lot of Cobol replacement projects underway. Yes, it'll still be around for awhile, but there's less of it in the wild every year. The sad thing is that many companies prefer the mainframe Cobol service as it has run reliably for decades and the Java replacement does not have that trait.
- oblio 8y ago
  Cobol had 10x fewer developers at its peakc and probably 100-1000x fewer lines out of code out there, in the wild. Plus it didn't have a huge Open Source community.
  - TuringTest 8y ago
    There were 10x fewer developers in general back then. And who's going to take over that community once all its current members retire? The cool kids of the future ain't going to learn Java once companies move to a better technology. It may take decades, but eventually people will stop building new code in the language.
    - oblio 8y ago
      You're directly or implicitly assuming that: a) Java is a bad technology and it's not moving forward ("once companies move to a better technology") b) new Java developers aren't being trained, including very young and bright ones, straight out of universities, and they don't enjoy Java Both claims are false.
      - amrx431 8y ago
        Exactly. Even-though my livelihood right now comes from Python, I was trained in Java in my university(along with C). I did some coding(web scrapping) in Python but that was it. I still can and willing to write in Java.

Java. C#, C++ will never be replaced. Want job security learn and code in these languages. Enterprises love them and are not going to incur cost to replace their code-bases with anything else.

rusk 8y ago

Java code is a bitch to write from scratch but it never dies.

simonh 8y ago
Oracle's commercial licensing department is relying on that fact.

TuringTest 8y ago

People said the same thing about COBOL. It was replaced anyway. You're using a really short version of "never".

asien 8y ago
Banking and Government are still making services in COBOL . It’ll never disappear.
- 3rdAccount 8y ago
  There are a lot of Cobol replacement projects underway. Yes, it'll still be around for awhile, but there's less of it in the wild every year. The sad thing is that many companies prefer the mainframe Cobol service as it has run reliably for decades and the Java replacement does not have that trait.
oblio 8y ago
Cobol had 10x fewer developers at its peakc and probably 100-1000x fewer lines out of code out there, in the wild. Plus it didn't have a huge Open Source community.
- TuringTest 8y ago
  There were 10x fewer developers in general back then. And who's going to take over that community once all its current members retire? The cool kids of the future ain't going to learn Java once companies move to a better technology. It may take decades, but eventually people will stop building new code in the language.
  - oblio 8y ago
    You're directly or implicitly assuming that: a) Java is a bad technology and it's not moving forward ("once companies move to a better technology") b) new Java developers aren't being trained, including very young and bright ones, straight out of universities, and they don't enjoy Java Both claims are false.
    - amrx431 8y ago
      Exactly. Even-though my livelihood right now comes from Python, I was trained in Java in my university(along with C). I did some coding(web scrapping) in Python but that was it. I still can and willing to write in Java.