Link to the thread: https://programming.dev/post/8969747

Hello everyone, I’ve followed this thread yesterday and noticed a few very negative reactions towards the choice of Java. I follow Java evolution from far away, but it seemed like it was evolving in a good direction since the last few years, and that performance-wise it would make sense for the back-end of a Lemmy-like platform.

Is it indeed the case? I was just curious to see that much negativity towards one of the most popular languages.

  • stevecrox
    1•9 months ago

    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.