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by frigg 132 days ago
>Following this hypothesis, what C did to assembler, what Java did to C, what Javascript/Python/Perl did to Java, now LLM agents are doing to all programming languages.

What did Javascript/Python do to Java? They are not interchangeable nor comparable. I don't think Federico's opinion is worth reading further.
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randallsquared 132 days ago
Three of Java's top application categories are webapps, banking/financial services, and big data. Node and Pyspark have displaced quite a lot of that.
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frigg 132 days ago
Most serious banking apps and financial services are still written in Java, it hasn't displaced much of anything. Big data is a relatively 'new' fad that is already becoming less and less relevant.
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niels8472 132 days ago
Plus Python and Perl predate Java.
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