Java 30 years

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Original link: Java turns 30, and there’s no stopping it now / InfoWorld.

Java has turned 30 years.

And it seems to be in pretty good shape.

The language itself is a bit old - the syntax is verbose and some design decisions would definately have been done different today (*). But in the end this is stuff that make young developers declare their dislike on StackOverflow not stuff that make CIO consider a migration of Java.

*) no unsigned integers, type erasure in generics, nullable reference types etc.

But on the plus side:

• lot of existing server side Java code out there
• still most used language for new code if static typing required
• used in lots of critical infrastructure software - data scientists may write Python code, the actual math may be done in Fortran library code, but most likely the data is moved around by Java code
• for those unhappy with the Java language then the Java platform offers many alternative sincluding Kotlin, Groovy and Scala

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