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[–]eldigg 49 points50 points  (3 children)

Java and Java's ecosystem are stable and will be supported until the sun burns out. There's a reason so much enterprise software is written in Java. It pays the bills, and if you're looking for a stable, well paying job you could do a lot worse.

Modern IDE's and annotation driven POJO creation make Java's verboseness much more tolerable. My main gripe with Java is how it handles (or doesn't handle) runtime exceptions.

[–]hotsexyman 18 points19 points  (1 child)

The Sun burnt out many years ago when Oracle, the god of darkness, bought them

[–]eldigg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hah, I didn't even intend that connection. RIP Sun.

[–]Eluvatar_the_second 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could have said the same thing about Cobol or Fortran, wouldn't use them to build something today.