[mountainriver]

The best thing to ever happen to the software world was Oracle buying Sun and consequently Java.

Java was great at its time but then had to go. Oracle gaining control over them sped up this process.

Poor Android got caught up and now half our phones don’t work

[UltraSane]

What are you trying to say?

[stanac]

I think they are saying Java is dead?! Not sure how else to interpret the comment. If that's the case I have to disagree. There are probably billions of lines of Java in enterprise, it will never die.

[UltraSane]

Java is still very popular and even being used for new projects.

[chasd00]

my standard Java analogy is it's like a garbage truck. Java is out there every day doing a job that's absolutely critical but rarely, if ever, in the lime light.

[re-thc]

> but rarely, if ever, in the lime light

I disagree. The open web likes bashing it as a scrape goat. Reddit, X/Twitter, etc. It's died down some lately but there were at least a couple a years when this was very out there.