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Now with generics, it will eat the pie from Java market.

I'm a fan of Go, but, let's be real, Java's not going anywhere.

In all fairness, I expect that Go did eat some of Java's market share (since Go is popular and targets a similar part of the market), but yeah I doubt that generics are going to make a real difference in that direction; I expect that (mostly) anyone who was going to switch has done.

Besides more than switch, it is new or new kind software that getting written often in newer languages which may eventually replace old stacks.

I like many daemons are written in go instead of java these days and they start up instantly and take fer less resource.

Java will fade out as old systems fade out in a few decades as ecosystems catch up in other languages.

With loom, Java will eat the pie from the Go market.

well cobol hasn't gone anywhere so I don't expect Java to go anywhere. Although I dislike Java I think lots and lots of legacy apps are made in Java and isn't going anywhere. And many university still teaches Java which mean it is just as strong. And andriod etc relies on Java which means it will last for centuries.

Cobol has way less market share than it did a few decades ago.

How do you know?

I'm kind-of puzzled how we'd even start to make such a comparison, given that "the market" for computer software has been incredibly diverse for decades.

Explosive growth in parts of the market that previously didn't exist, slower growth in parts that existed for many decades.

"Modernization was favored over the replacing and retiring of older systems with 63 percent of respondents choosing to improve upon their existing COBOL systems in 2020."

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/what-is/cobol

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