• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    A language I wish would die already, but there are still vendors that program in it, along with freaking Tomcat hosted applications. EduTech is still stuffed to the gills with it.

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      28 days ago

      There’s always Kotlin. Of course I never understood the desirability of a VM language in the first place, why not just compile for different architecture?

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        28 days ago

        It can help with standardization and some security benefits to run things in the JVM, part of the reason it’s so popular in enterprise

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        27 days ago

        “Write once, run anywhere” is a pipe dream but Java came closer than anyone else by far.