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Re:Should I Learn Java in 2018 by danohuiginn on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:14AM (#17522221)
IMO the enhancements of Java over the last few versions have been very well chosen. I can't think of another language which has improved so much, and with so little hassle to developers.

streams, type inference, lambda expressions, an official REPL: big changes, which effectively targeted some of the biggest pain-points in earlier Java.

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Re:Should I Learn Java in 2018 by haglin on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:49PM (#17542740)
And more is coming:

Fibers, pattern matching, continuations, value types, low latency garbage collector …

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Re:Should I Learn Java in 2018 by saiya-jin on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:52AM (#17522478)
Which I wholeheartedly agree, you won't find much sympathy with most of the people here on HN. Business recognized the value of Java long time ago (the bigger the project the better Java for it is, you will find tons of experienced devs for it, long term tested stable libs for just about anything required, very robust live monitoring and debugging, great dev tools, solid performance etc etc etc), and will remain around for very long time (unless Oracle would do something horrible, but why should they).

But good luck convincing people who can't sit calm for 15 minutes without checking their cell phone that some 20+ year old ecosystem is good enough for them.

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