[BoorishBears]

Ugh, I started reading this before I realized it's the same person who thinks C#'s under the hood improvements in the last decade can be handwaved away.

Yeah, 10% of Java's market share is not larger than C#

https://stackify.com/popular-programming-languages-2018/

If it was, those languages would be showing up on Github's survey above C# as well, they all consider Java independently not as a combination of all JVM languages.

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You've contorted this conversation so ridiculously out of shape then beating the horse you laid on it.

My original comment was a rebuttal to this comment:

> While Java's slow and cautious evolution frustrates developers, it still arguably demonstrates longer-term thinking than the constant accrual of features in its contemporaries such as JavaScript and C#.

If you read the whole comment, it was not about the JVM, it was not about confusing this issue with "oh yeah well the language sucks but that's so you can run Python on it's runtime".

No idea why you are so insistent on making it about anything but the actual language called Java, not Clojure or Kotlin or Js or Python.

[pron]

Because Java is both the name of a platform and the name of a language for that platform, and from its original design, the platform has been the main focus. Clojure, Kotlin and the Java language are all Java platform languages. And you'll just have to come to terms with the objective fact that other developers might disagree with your subjective language preferences. In fact, statistics would suggest that most of them would (as they would with any of us; I don't think a majority of developers would agree with any single language preference ranking). Developers know that most other developers disagree with them over language preference. That's why I'd rather speak of the platform than the language. Clearly we have different language preferences -- as most developers do -- and there is no right and wrong there.

[BoorishBears]

Ugh, no Java is not the same the Java Virtual Machine, no one calls them by the same name, no one is confusing those but you.

When Github says your project has Java they don't mean your project has Clojure or JRuby.

When Tiobe says Java has X market share they don't mean JVM does.

They are not Java platform languages, they are JVM platform languages.

If you can't even talk about this using simple base definitions of the two languages that I've literally never seen argued against until today, it only compounds why I said having this conversation with you is not worth my time.

[pron]

As I said, I work on OpenJDK, and the JVM constitutes less than 25% of the Java platform software (JDK). The Java language constitutes about 2% of the codebase, and Kotlin and Clojure make use of over 95% of it. They use the JVM, the Java core libraries (thanks to erased generics), and the selection of Java's debugging, profiling and monitoring tools that make up the JDK (not to mention their extensive use of third-party Java ecosystem libraries that aren't a part of the core platform). They are most definitely Java platform languages (although they're not only Java platform languages; e.g. Kotlin is also an Android language), even if colloquially many refer to the platform as "the JVM" although the JVM is only a small, yet obviously very important, part of it. Java is the name of both a programming language and the platform it is part of, and sometimes, for the sake of brevity, I too would refer to the platform as "the JVM." But as someone working on Java (not so much the language, but the platform), I try to use the more precise, more correct terminology, and I guess I'll just have to try and live with your dismay.

[BoorishBears]

I can't believe you work on the OpenJDK and are trying to intentionally confuse the JVM and Java.

tsk tsk.

[pron]

Well then, I guess I'm going to have to learn to live with your disbelief as well.

Java is the name of both a software platform as well as a programming language for that platform. Languages that target that platform are often called "JVM languages," but really they make use of almost all of Java (the platform) rather than just the JVM (although that degree varies: Kotlin makes use of the platform almost as much as the Java language; Clojure makes use of somewhat less, yet more than Scala or Ceylon).

http://openjdk.java.net/

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/13/docs/specs/index.h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)

[BoorishBears]

You're mangling the conversation and then trying to force an issue with the conversation you mangled... again.

Please show me where Github, Tiboe, or any other survey says "Java" instead of "Clojure" or any "JVM language".

That's what my comment was referring to (rather, a small part of it was and you latched onto the chance to derail the conversation to wax poetic about semantics again)

You're the only one trying to talk about a platform.

Github indexes a ".java" file with Java code as a Java language file and a ".clj" file with Clojure code as a Clojure language file.

Not a "java platform file".