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Re:Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance ... by HDThoreaun on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:12PM (#50345467)
Is that why java is such a popular language these days?
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Re:Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance ... by solyin on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:35PM (#50346378)
It is. If your media diet consists of HN and reddit you'd think people actually use Rust, but judging by who's hiring for what according to Indeed, Java is 3rd after Python and JavaScript, and Rust doesn't even rank.
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Re:Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance ... by nradov on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:43PM (#50346437)
Yes, it's extremely popular. No matter how you count it's at least in the top 10 programming languages for new code being written. And there are several other niche languages that also target the JVM.
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Re:Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance ... by happymellon on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:41AM (#50349189)
It was never unpopular.

You had some tryhards pulling some insane class name from the bowels of a library [1] and using that as an example that Java will always have a problem with naming and is therefore doomed. Or an alternative language claiming that they will eat Javas lunch, forgetting that it is used in a lot of Enterprise and its going nowhere [2].

I have had a few gig that have needed me to work in Python, JavaScript or Typescript, but there was always a pairing with Java.

[1] See Aspectj - HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor.java

[2] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2024/07/is-java-still-releva...

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