Ask HN: Is Java worth learning?

Re:Ask HN: Is Java worth learning? by smt88 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @12:04AM (#15998049)

Java is worth learning. It'll take you a few days or weeks to get comfortable.

It may not be worth getting good at it, unless it's purely a way to get a job at a big company.

Brightest futures seem to be Python (for data science and AI), Rust, Elm, Kotlin, Go, maybe F#, and probably Swift.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Java worth learning? by michaelsbradley on Sunday December 24, 2017 @02:39AM (#15998489)

JavaScript probably makes the same list...

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Re:Ask HN: Is Java worth learning? by thebeardedone on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:07AM (#15998718)

Care to elaborate? I havent done any frontend stuff in a few months but it appears to be the only solution there. Even when using typescript, you still want and need to know js.

Regarding Java, i think its a good starting point if you want to hack your first web project together. You sort of see how everything works together. Before that I always recommend looking at C just to know what you are missing out on. If there is some calculation happening you can always call some C/C++ code to see if you get some speed ups by optimizing for the cache (just an interesting experiment if youve never done it before.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Java worth learning? by thebeardedone on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:12AM (#15998731)

Woops read the wrong parent comment. Ignore me :).

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