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I found this statement particularly surprising:

>Java, with its faults, has completely conquered web >application programming.

Is there any evidence that this is true? It's certainly my experience that the direct opposite is true. Java is traditionally considered successful in everything except web application development.

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The statement is certainly correct for webapps of a certain scale, meaning enterprise-scale, not startups. I'm not sure where you get the idea that Java is successful in anything else - certainly not in desktop apps, games, embedded (except for Android), etc.