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Just remember when you talk about "cool" and popular that, Google+, GMail, LinkedIn, and many parts of Twitter are Java.

• raverbashing 14y ago
  For twitter: JVM != Java Also remember that Google uses C++ as well for their infrastructure LinkedIn, yep
  • rabbitfang 14y ago
    Google is heavily reliant on Java. LinkedIn and Twitter both use Scala and Java. I'm not really sure that pointing out that Google has some C++ code really disproves that Java is used heavily at google. Java is still very widely used, more so than more fashionable languages like python and ruby, but the syntax is a bit long on the tooth, hence the popularity of Scala, Clojure and Groovy.
    • raverbashing 14y ago
      " I'm not really sure that pointing out that Google has some C++ code really disproves that Java is used heavily at google. " Of course not "Java is still very widely used, more so than more fashionable languages like python and ruby"" Yes, but "widely used" is a tricky term, I'm sure cases both for and against can be found. But to talk about Google, last I heard it's only possible to develop application there in the following languages: JS, Java, C++, Python (there are exceptions of course, for specific libraries or things like ObjC for iOS)