Re:Go is Google's language, not ours
by oblio on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:57AM
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Core Java systems are being written and updated at: Oracle, Amazon, Google, Netflix, IBM and almost all the Fortune 500 companies.
Java is also used by Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Apple, and many other companies that aren't necessarily known for their Java development.
Java usually is the base for every core banking system that's not old enough to have been written in COBOL (and even those are being migrated to Java in many cases) or hasn't been written from scratch in .NET.
The same Java is also used by governments throughout the world.
If Oracle vanishes completely tomorrow, there's huge incentives for a community initiative to completely take it over ASAP. There's probably tens of billions of dollars in existing code bases that have to be maintained and extended.
Java is also used by Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Apple, and many other companies that aren't necessarily known for their Java development.
Java usually is the base for every core banking system that's not old enough to have been written in COBOL (and even those are being migrated to Java in many cases) or hasn't been written from scratch in .NET.
The same Java is also used by governments throughout the world.
If Oracle vanishes completely tomorrow, there's huge incentives for a community initiative to completely take it over ASAP. There's probably tens of billions of dollars in existing code bases that have to be maintained and extended.
More than that, Java's already 23 years old. It's not a new language. Plus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect