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by maltalex 2150 days ago
I wouldn’t bet against Java. It is both ubiquitous and evolving. Sure, Kotlin is nicer than Java 7 (Java 15 is about to be released soon) but the switch to Kotlin is happening only on Android. Java is still extremely strong on the backend where there is little reason to replace it with anything else at the moment. Even if new projects stop being written in Java entirely (which they aren’t), there would still be plenty of Java in the enterprise for the foreseeable future.

I could maybe see some Java projects switching to Rust if anything. Especially for infrastructure projects like Cassandra where performance matters a lot, and where GC pauses are problematic.