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Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    There's also Groovy. A data execution pipeline program I use called NextFlow uses Groovy based scripts.

    And compiling for different architectures can be very difficult. I've done a lot of work Power9 computers and it's not as simple as having the right compiler flags. Often the dependencies aren't built for your platform either so you have to go and compile those too. It can be quite a hassle.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    JIT compiling and byte code morphing and instrumentation. For instance data base persistence is usually done by instrumentation tools, that add instructions to keep track about transactions and modified objects, or new objects that need persisting. And endless more things.

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