My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated

Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by throwaway019254 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:44AM (#35959949)

> And most devs hating on Java are using an IDE written mainly in Java (all the JetBrains ones): the irony of that one gives me the giggles.

And using AWS that has most services written in Java.

Java improved a lot in the last few years and it’s not going anywhere.

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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by okeuro49 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:35AM (#35960361)

I think Java virtual threads and structured concurrency are going to only improve its standing.

People complain about Java, but then it could be much, much worse. What we have is a rich open-source ecosystem, great backwards compatibility and carefully considered new features.

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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by wernercd on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:20AM (#35960231)

Java, COBOL, C#, JavaScript, etc... all tech that's not "sexy" but are the backbones.

Even dead languages like COBOL aren't dead.

These techs are the tech that'll be here in 40+ years - or atleast until Skynet rewrites them in binary and we're nuclear ash. I think COBOL will be driving the satellites that monitor the heat death of the universe.

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