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Java is the #1 language in the world. It's the best out there, period. http://jaxenter.com/java-is-the-world-s-1-programming-language-again-47932.html http://j

by suyash 13y ago

Java is the #1 language in the world. It's the best out there, period. http://jaxenter.com/java-is-the-world-s-1-programming-language-again-47932.html http://jaxenter.com/java-is-the-world-s-1-programming-langua...

radiantsand 13y ago
Best at what? You've link to a notoriously unscientific index which counts search engine results. How does that make one language universally better than all others "period". I've coded in Java for most of my career, but the blind blinkered faith in the language within the Java community never ceases to amaze me. It's one tool available among many, look a little further than that single hammer which you worship in your toolbox.
gamegoblin 13y ago
Popularity != Quality
- peterashford 13y ago
  I don't think you can become a popular cross platform systems programming language without being pretty decent.
  - gamegoblin 13y ago
    There is a lose correlation between quality and popularity, but being the most popular language is in no way indicative of being the best language (as the person I responded to was saying).
    - Buttons840 13y ago
      I agree. I've ran across a few obscure languages I thought would be barren, but found they had exciting new developments happening. It made me realized there's a big difference between the number of language contributors and the number of language users. Most are language users, like myself, who glue a few libraries together and write a little business logic and call myself a programmer. Whereas a language contributor (as I call them) create libraries, development tools, etc. I've wondered if the number of language contributors is roughly equal, within an order of magnitude, across most languages, even the obscure ones. Language contributors add quality to the language, language users (again, myself) don't.
    - peterashford 13y ago
      Well I guess the problem with "best" is that you have to ask: best for what? Looking pretty? Running fast? Being elegant? Being maintainable? Getting Shit Done(tm)? Yeah, it's a kinda vacuous statement I guess :o)
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by suyash 13y ago

radiantsand 13y ago

Best at what? You've link to a notoriously unscientific index which counts search engine results. How does that make one language universally better than all others "period". I've coded in Java for most of my career, but the blind blinkered faith in the language within the Java community never ceases to amaze me. It's one tool available among many, look a little further than that single hammer which you worship in your toolbox.

gamegoblin 13y ago

Popularity != Quality

peterashford 13y ago
I don't think you can become a popular cross platform systems programming language without being pretty decent.
- gamegoblin 13y ago
  There is a lose correlation between quality and popularity, but being the most popular language is in no way indicative of being the best language (as the person I responded to was saying).
  - Buttons840 13y ago
    I agree. I've ran across a few obscure languages I thought would be barren, but found they had exciting new developments happening. It made me realized there's a big difference between the number of language contributors and the number of language users. Most are language users, like myself, who glue a few libraries together and write a little business logic and call myself a programmer. Whereas a language contributor (as I call them) create libraries, development tools, etc. I've wondered if the number of language contributors is roughly equal, within an order of magnitude, across most languages, even the obscure ones. Language contributors add quality to the language, language users (again, myself) don't.
  - peterashford 13y ago
    Well I guess the problem with "best" is that you have to ask: best for what? Looking pretty? Running fast? Being elegant? Being maintainable? Getting Shit Done(tm)? Yeah, it's a kinda vacuous statement I guess :o)
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