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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

Java has been around for decades longer than Rust, comparing total code numbers doesn't tell the whole story

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

That's not the whole story, most of the Java code that exists is proprietary, java is undoubtedly #1

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[–] Blaze@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago

Oh definitely, but I took GitHub as it should reflect "hobby projects"

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

You actually think there's more Java code than JavaScript? Basically every website in the world feels the need to use JS nowadays.

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

obviously I wasn't counting JS because by sheer volume, HTML+CSS+JS will outnumber everything because it's the only combo for the browser.

but if you restrict it as JS for Backend, then obviously it's not even close to Java.

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

If you can write off JS because "you have to use it because it's the internet" then I can write off Java because "you have to use it for billions of 20 year old legacy applications".

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago*

I am not writing it off, I am saying it has no competition in the browser... therefore irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

and btw, even in the link https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/4 Javascript is not first, Python is, over Java.

but once again, you would actually have to look for the backed JS applications, you are not choosing java over JS for the web, at best you would choose JSF and that still uses javascript.