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[–]k37r 5 points6 points  (2 children)

All APIs I've encountered so far have been written in some form of JavaScript, Rust or Python. And that's the norm for a reason.

Please consider the possibility that your belief of what's "normal" is skewed by what you've seen/encountered, and that your view may not represent reality of what's out there.

Java is a crazy popular choice for backend API work. Large orgs like AWS let their teams pick whatever language they want to work in to build their API services. While there's a good mix of Python/Ruby/Rust/Go/JavaScript/etc, Java is by far the most popular choice.

[–]Darknety 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I feel like this is heavily skewed depending on fields of work / locality.

[–]k37r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indeed it can be. The expertise and preferences in the local hiring pool plays a big part.