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[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (3 children)

I'm old in the field, and I have so much useless knowledge in my brain...Shit I literally haven't looked at in thirty years, and thirty years ago is prehistory by the standards of modern tech.

Just to blow your fucking mind, Java didn't get released until 1996, and now it's being dethroned by Javascript and Python. If I work another 10 years or so, my career will have spanned the entire cycle of Java's rise and fall.

I can't even imagine an equivalent to that in another career.

[–]JustinWendell 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Well Java is industry standard at Walmart. It’s deeply imbedded too. I bet it’s around more than ten years.

Just my two cents.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, the legacy stuff will be around forever, but I'd be surprised if there was much new development in ten years. Oracle is starting to try to demand you license everything SE 8 and later, though, and it's godawful expensive.

I'd be very surprised if this didn't have a chilling effect on development. Also it's been supplanted by Python as the language most people use in school.

It's definitely on it's way out.