Why Java Is Never Gonna Die?
Being a Java developer, I often hear a question. Is there any future left for Java and its developers? In short, they want to know how long will Java be able to survive. I believe Java can never die. But then why and how this question comes to everyone's mind? I started to find out why people think Java has no future. The first reason everyone gave was Java is old. So Let's see how old Java is actually. James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991.
Sun Microsystems released the first public implementation as Java 1.0 in 1996. 1996, so it is old for sure, but not old enough to say it's the end of Java. Here are some widely used languages with their release year that are even older than Java.
1980 – C++
1986 – Objective-C
1991 – Python
1991 – Visual Basic
1993 – R These are the languages as old as Java.
1995 – ruby
1995 – JavaScript
1995 – PHP
Can we think of our world without Python or PHP or JavaScript? The answer is No, right? So the first reason doesn't seem so valid now. Languages older than Java are still alive and used widely by developers.
Then comes the other reason that Java is meshy and lengthy to write. Well, maybe we all can agree on this one. Writing lengthy and complicated code is time-consuming and hard to understand. But only a Java developer can understand the real joy of doing so. It's not that writing a lot of code makes you feel like an elite developer. Instead, I love lengthy but well-designed and organized Java code. It's because it gives more control and security to your code. Just think about coding a large enterprise application using a less secure dynamic language. This is the reason most government applications and large ERP management systems are written in Java to date.
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The last and most unpractical reason I hear is, what has Java given us over the years? My best reply to this would be like this. Have you ever heard about Android, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, etc? And we’re not talking about mere extensions of Java. These are brand-new programming languages that certainly borrow something from Java, but most of all, they make good use of the JVM and the Java ecosystem. JVM is the biggest achievement of Java. Memory management and garbage collection, security, fundamental programming libraries, and debugging and inspection capabilities — all these items made the JVM a very safe, comfortable place.
Conclusion
There are many more topics that altogether make Java a language that can never die. Yes, you read it right Java can never die. Oracle and the community are doing a decent job in improving Java, and we’re all enjoying the advantages of such advancements. Maybe the progress is a little slow but, slow advancements in the evolution of a programming language can never be a sign of abandonment. So all my programmer and non-programmer friends, get up and start coding. And for all those who want to learn Java please visit IIHT Surat the best Java training center of Surat.
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