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Java is doing fine in all the ways that COBOL was doing fine in 1997. I don’t know anybody who lost their house because they only knew COBOL.
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On a long enough timeline we are indeed all dead. COBOL had been around for ~40 yrs by 1997. By that metric, Java should still be doing fine by 2036. Better Q: What do you like working with?
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Language commentary has been confused by winner-takes-all network logic, which does not apply. All you need is escape velocity and self-sufficient sustainability. Many langs/envs have acquired both. Pick amongst those and you’ll be fine.
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Winner takes all is rarely true even in networked situations. Who's the winner in video? You'd probably say YouTube but Vimeo and Twitch are doing well. Who's the social media winner? Facebook's king but what about Twitter? Winner-take-all is an excuse.
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Winner-take-all is an excuse, and a rich one from anyone using Rails, Ruby, JavaScript, or a dozen other successes that were once deemed “outsiders.” But nevertheless, I empathize with people who seek emotional comfort in going along with the crowd.
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Although many people win’t admit it—even to themselves—“Nobody got fired for buying IBM” usually means, “I don’t want all the people who buy IBM thinking that I’m a maverick.”
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And so we get the endless reading of tea leaves as everyone tries to sort out which JavaScript doohickey will be the winner. Not because their skills might become obsolete, or they won’t be able to hire anyone to work on their code.
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Nope! They stress out testing the wind direction every ten minutes, worried that some day, people might look at them pityingly and whisper, “He made his millions on Ruby, when everyone else had moved on to Elixir.”
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I'm personally interested in brand new apps choosing rails. It's still very very common, even in places you wouldn't expect. Rails is (correctly) seen as a pragmatic choice for backoffice functionality that gets the job done.
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I'd love to see people experienced in dynamic languages and their idiomatic frameworks bring their ideas to the Java ecosystem. There is a lot of upside for both.
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