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Re:Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve by vimslayer on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:49AM (#20201336)
That sounds a lot like what people are saying about PHP and its newer versions. But the thing is, now that we have great alternatives (Kotlin, C#, Scala, Go, Dart...), what does Java have that those don't?
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Re:Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve by oblio on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:13AM (#20201770)
Millions and millions of people using them. High quality (and in many cases user friendly and familiar, too) tools built around them, several options, even.
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Re:Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve by locopati on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:02AM (#20203023)
A virtual machine backed by decades of development and millions of person-hours
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