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> no other single language looks posed to seriously challenges Java's dominant position on the server (as PHP seemed for a while) What do you think about JavaS
by mwcampbell 4y ago
> no other single language looks posed to seriously challenges Java's dominant position on the server (as PHP seemed for a while)
What do you think about JavaScript in this context? JavaScript seems at least as popular among today's full-stack web developers as PHP was 15-20 years ago. V8 might not be as optimal a runtime environment for servers as HotSpot, but that won't necessarily diminish the language's popularity.
- pron 4y agoJavaScript is very popular overall, possibly more than Java, and it is, without a doubt, the dominant client-side language, but its prospects on the server are currently not as rosy as they were five years ago. It's never materialised as a solid, responsible choice for big, important, server-side applications, and it's lost the coolness factor it had when Node was young. The market is much more fragmented than it was in, say, 2004, and so Java is not likely to regain its anomalous overwhelming dominance it had back then anytime soon, but no other language seems posed to do that, either.