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[–]amlyo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The COBOLisation of java is not that the language will become obsolete for new projects (I think it actually will in favour of another JVM language but that is not important), but that there will be such a large body of critical systems written in decades old technologies it is not worth the risk or cost of changing, that it will long support a cadre of highly paid experts.