Azul CTO: Java at 30 Still Rules Enterprise Dev
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Sometimes I felt it was only a few years ago I was working with Java Native compile using GCJ.
Whatever is tredding on HN is pretty much ignored most of the time.
if we talk about enterprise legacy, I mean hell I bet there are Cobol system out there still running, the programmer who created it has been retired but company still decide to run it for legacy reason
Alas chathippityi can't even port something as enduring, test exampled, source available, and well documented as SED.
There is a little bit of depth to something like that, but it should be well in the wheelhouse of the claim capabilities of llms. Alas, I get nothing but the most superficial of flag capabilities and sed capabilities.
Effective porting should be a prime capability, because in general I would consider that to be breadth-based knowledge Rather than involve deep language knowledge.
There was a wiki style sit, I believe it's called Rosetta or Rosetta Stone that attempts to do this before the age of llms. And really that should be the low-hanging fruit for some stage of llm maturity that it can do that and renders that site obsolete.
I'd love to hear opinions to the contrary, but it appears we are pretty far from that
I was a full time java programmer since the first available version doing applets and servlets etc going for money, and that worked, we made a lot of it. I left Lisp and Prolog to go to java, and yeah, I am sorry for it. I am in a different time of my life, I like to think I would never do that with what I know now 'just for money' as it is definitely not fun for me. I try it once in a while, but SBCL is fast and actually faster for most things we care about. And SO much more fun. To me anyway.
I don't like java - but you gotta admire the staying power - virtually every corporation runs on it or a flavor of it for the more advanced startups running at scale.
for any backend running at scale - nothing touches JVM. n yeah LLMs ain't making a dent for AbstractFactoryBuilderClass thingies in java or the inverted inventor principles Java Architect Astronauts like to do.
By now Java people already have their licensing agreements. They aren't going to be buying anything new.