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Java is used a LOT on the back-end still. Yes, golang is shiny new thing, but there is TONS of boring back-end done in Java. Whole Alibaba runs on Java, for e
by shp0ngle 6y ago
Java is used a LOT on the back-end still.
Yes, golang is shiny new thing, but there is TONS of boring back-end done in Java.
Whole Alibaba runs on Java, for example. I know of some companies (won't share names but fill in the blanks) that used to be Go shops, that were eaten by Alibaba and they migrated from Go to Java.
- Maphistow 6y agoWouldn't agree on the GO statement, yes GO is great in terms of performance but it still lacks some important language features AFAIK no generics, no proper exception handling. I honestly don't know how the GO ecosystem is, but I can't imagine it's as mature as java. Perhaps I'm wrong tho
- shp0ngle 6y agoI’ve removed that part of the post as I don’t want to make this about go :)
- geodel 6y ago> no proper exception handling. That's just like saying Go does not have application servers, DI, IOC, ORM frameworks, runtime reflection and so on. Different languages have different ways of achieving user requirements. It is not one-to-one matching. > ... I can't imagine it's as mature as java. Yes, depending on perspective, not as mature or not as fossilized as Java.