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Java's recent popularity?
It almost seems like Java's popularity has skyrocketed after the advent of hadoop and associated projects. Take a look at the recent projects: hadoop, hbase, cassandra, flume, kafka, etc. Large highly successful companies are using it extensively (LinkedIn, Netflix). And these are not our cookie-cutter enterprise projects. These are high performance applications. Wow! And the industry keeps talking about the death of Java. (I'm not Java fan; I used to program in C++ for more than 10 yrs until I found the dearth of internet companies - other than yahoo, google, facebook - who use C++). So I guess Java is here to stay for a pretty long time? Thoughts?
- Proleps 13y agoJava is fast, and easier to program in than c/c++. That's the reason I still use it for a lot of projects. You can keep your source code clean by not using to many enterprise libraries and frameworks. I might replace it with go later, but I haven't had the time to really look into it.
- serichsen 13y agoJava is the next COBOL.
- alt_f4 13y agoHmm.. static typing, familiar syntax, great tooling, mature ecosystem and a fast VM? What's not to like?
- S4M 13y agoThe enterprise java programmers?
- Irishsteve 13y agoWhy?