| "Java is the new COBOL" has always been either a glaring sign of idiocy/ignorance or a bad joke signifying... idiocy/ignorance. COBOL is exotic syntax and runs on fringe/exotic hardware (mainframes, minicomps, IBM iron). Java is a c-like syntax that runs everywhere people are shoehorning in Go and Node.JS. Syntax arguments are bikeshedding, but it was a "step forward" for non-systems coding from C and has fundamental design, architectural, breadth of library, interop, modernization, and familiarity advantages over COBOL. Go is a syntax power stepback, with possibly some GC advantages, and Javascript even with Typescript is still a messed up ecosystem with worse GC and performance issues. One thing that was interesting was watching the Ruby on Rails stack explode in complexity to encompass an acronym soup nearly as bad a Java as the years moved forward and it matured. Java isn't as complex an ecosystem as it is due to any failings or language failures. It simply has to be as a mature ecosystem. Syntax complaints I'll listen too, after all I do all my JVM programming in Groovy. But if you complain about java syntax, why would you think Go is "better"? I think a meta-language will emerge that will have Rust power and checking underlying it but a lot simpler, kind of like elixir and erlang, or typescript and javascript, or, well, Groovy and Java. |