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Is Java Still Relevant Nowadays?

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A company, which makes IDEs based on Java and for Java, concludes based on its own surveys that Java is indeed still relevant. That's a shocking revelation.

IDE company's survey shows it's own product as overwhelmingly most popular IDE. Who could have guessed?

Are you saying IntelliJ isn't the most popular IDE for Java?

Vscode has gotten pretty good for java

What plug-ins do you use?

I haven’t written Java for a while, but this is always a good starting point.

I always start without any extensions then slowly add them as I see a need.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-tutorial

Appreciate the answer.

JetBrains make IDEs for a host of languages: https://www.jetbrains.com/ides/

Their Java IDE is one of the few they release with a free community edition. There is a commercial version with additional features. I expect this is a result from arising where Eclipse and NetBeans open source IDEs existed.

I like GoLand and IntelliJ. Superior tools to others I have tried.

I really hope so, I'm no superfan for java but I prefer it over JavaScript and Python

Agreed it's biased, but no one working for a fortune 100 company would doubt Java's relevance

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/06... but for how long

I had never doubted whether Java is still relevant, until I saw an article trying to convince me Java is still relevant.

Saying Java is terrible has been a thing since Java first came out.

"It's strings aren't even mutable." - some C++ programmers.

Exactly - talk about a marketing backfire.

Yes, Java is a fine language and the JVM is a fantastic runtime.

It actually has some nice facts as well

Sadly yes. But given that you ask, there might be an end in sight. ^^

jep

Java = death for any startup. It also made OOP the main zeitgeist for many years, another terrible idea.

Nowadays it is getting better. But then again there is Kotlin and Clojure too.

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