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Java is a light client programming language that found a small niche in server programming.

• kaba0 3y ago
  It doesn’t really make sense to attribute the initial domain of a language to the whole platform. Especially when Java can have so many faces, and that it’s numero 1 use case is backend applications. Android is a comparatively small market.
• funcDropShadow 3y ago
  > Java ... found a small niche in server programming. Lol, virtually all business server applications are running on th e JVM in the corner of the world that I see.