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> Microsoft has seen increasing growth in customer use of Java across the company’s cloud services and development tools. Interesting to see that MS is seeing
by jmartrican 6y ago
> Microsoft has seen increasing growth in customer use of Java across the company’s cloud services and development tools.
Interesting to see that MS is seeing "increasing growth" in Java yet I get the feeling that many HN commenters have written it off.
- casion 6y agoHN self-selects for people searching for the latest things.
- jmartrican 6y agosolid point
- Epitom3 6y agoagreed
- webmobdev 6y agoThere does exist a lot of Java code, and this just seems more like an MS attempt to try to entice them to their "cloud" with their own Java stack.
- mhh__ 6y agoJava isn't cool anymore. If you looked at the HN front-page you'd think almost all new software is being written in Rust, for example
- watwut 6y agoThere was never time when Java was cool. It was always language to get the job done, basically.
- NoSorryCannot 6y agoThe JVM and associated ecosystem of libraries and build tools is still well-regarded and popular, even if Java-the-language isn't viewed as sexy. Java has gotten a bit sexier lately but if it's not for you, you can try Kotlin, Scala, or one of the other dozens of languages that can compile against the JVM. And of course there is an endless and growing number of code bases in the Java language and that won't be changing anytime soon.
- tmpz22 6y agoAndroid isn't going away anytime soon. Its important to remember the HN is a bubble that may not always represent the broader world...
- dagw 6y agoEven if the world stopped writing new Java tomorrow, Microsoft could see years of growth just from people migrating their existing Java code to Azure.
- watwut 6y agoHN is not representative of pretty much anything. It is very biased self selected sample, basically.