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Yes, but the difference here is that Python is talked about all the time, so the online tech world knows that Python is huge. The comment I was replying to see
by munificent 1y ago
Yes, but the difference here is that Python is talked about all the time, so the online tech world knows that Python is huge.
The comment I was replying to seems to believe Java is a tiny backwater, which is anything but true.
- bunderbunder 1y agoI read it less as "Java is tiny" and more as "Java developers can be peculiarly insular and conservative, by the standards of other communities." Considering that as recently as 4 years ago I was working on a project where we still had a hard requirement to support running in Java 7, and this kind of thing was not considered unusual, I can't really disagree too strongly with that. Yes, that was still inside of Java 7's extended support period, so there was really nothing unusual or surprising about this, from a Java developer perspective. But that's kind of the point. It's also not really a bad thing, considering what kinds of things run on Java. Mainframe developers have a similar thing going on, for a similar and similarly good reason.