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Can someone explain why Java is so popular?
by silent_cal 3y ago
Can someone explain why Java is so popular?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- w1nst0nsm1th 3y agoLegacy... End of '90 to mid 2000, Java was the go-to language for everything, from browser applications (applet), to coffee machine, to enterprise applications. It is cross-platform, and was free before oracle bought Sun Microsystem. It's also the language of devellopement of Android.
- timbit42 3y agoIt's the new COBOL.
- jiehong 3y agoAndroid, even though Kotlin is growing there. Otherwise, it’s a language that has picked up pace in the last few years and is not laying still (Java 17 and now 21 for example, but also AOT compilation with graalVM, etc).
- silent_cal 3y agoThanks