Re:Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012)
by TeMPOraL on Sunday November 04, 2018 @04:22AM
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> However, there's a reason Java is in the top 3 most popular languages. Its pragmatic, it scales, it plays nice with tooling and the language itself is pretty passable.
I wonder if those are true reasons. I currently believe in the following set of reasons, in the order of importance: runaway feedback loop of popularity (popularity -> jobs -> popularity), JVM is cross-platform, low cognitive effort per line of code written.
I wonder if those are true reasons. I currently believe in the following set of reasons, in the order of importance: runaway feedback loop of popularity (popularity -> jobs -> popularity), JVM is cross-platform, low cognitive effort per line of code written.