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by slipperydippery 295 days ago
When all your examples in actual use are bloated…

I’ve never seen another basic tech used to develop other programs that’s so consistently obvious from its high resource use and slowness, aside from the modern web platform (Chrome, as you put it). It was even more obvious back when we had slower machines, of course, but Java still stands out. It may be able to calculate digits of Pi in a tight loop about as fast as C, but real programs are bloated and slow.
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gf000 295 days ago
Sounds like a classic case of confirmation bias.

Especially that like half of the web runs on Java, you just have absolutely no idea when it silently does its job perfectly.

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alt227 294 days ago
> Especially that like half of the web runs on Java

Source?

W3 seems to think its more like ~5%

https://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/pl-java

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gf000 294 days ago
5% of "whose server-side programming language we know"

From the website.

And 76% of these websites is PHP, which seems to mean.. they can determine PHP more easily for a website (nonetheless, there are indeed a lot of WordPress sites, but not this amount).

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alt227 293 days ago
Right, so Im assuming that as you are saying 'Half the web runs on java', maybe you know more about what websites are using in their backend? Care to share where you are getting this information from?
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slipperydippery 295 days ago
K.
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