Java’s niche is middleware and ‘big data’, so choosing it for a Lemmy drop in replacement an excellent choice.
Programming goes through various fads where a particular language is everyones favourite for a while (see the plethora of this is X tool … rewritten in Rust!).
You’ve had Scala, Node.JS, Go, Python and now Rust try to supplant Java in its middleware role. Each one has tried to highlight reasons why Java is bad to justify the switch.
Java’s niche is middleware and ‘big data’, so choosing it for a Lemmy drop in replacement an excellent choice.
Programming goes through various fads where a particular language is everyones favourite for a while (see the plethora of this is X tool … rewritten in Rust!).
You’ve had Scala, Node.JS, Go, Python and now Rust try to supplant Java in its middleware role. Each one has tried to highlight reasons why Java is bad to justify the switch.