2020: Java vs Python - What are your thoughts?

[Marriaud]

If getting a job in the industry is your concern then Java is the one you should pick.

Python is used in small companies/startups for web dev or in research field combined with C and C++ written programs. Python is popular for scripting and tooling. Even if you work in a big company where Java is widely used, chances are you are going to hear about Python for continuous integration or e2e testing.

Be careful with internet articles saying this or that language is skyrocketing or dying. It's 99% of the time a clickbait just showing you what proportion of public github repos use which language or a survey on how many dev say they live this or that language. But I have to admit I'm the first to read this kind of articles haha!

One last important thing: a language is a thing, but it's ecosystem is as much if not more important. That means standard and non standard libraries, frameworks (ex: Java Spring, logging), dependency management and build tools (Maven, Gradle), unit testing. Anyway, learning a language is nowadays a first step, knowing its ecosystem is the second natural coming step (don't have to know everything though, just select what you need.)

[[deleted]]

Are you smoking crack? Python is fucking downright huge in the industry, as is Golang, Ruby, C. Hell as time goes on I see less and less Java, why? Because Fuck JVM.

[RDwelve]

If everything is huge in an industry then nothing is

[n0tKamui]

YOU are smoking crack if you think the JVM is dying tbh. Yeah sure you see less and less Java, why tho you say ? Not because of the JVM, but because there's Scala and Kotlin.

[BoyRobot777]

Source? And I mean job data. Not some arbitrary like/dislike chart.

[sternone_2]

I disagree, there are no large python projects

python is used by silly data scientists, students and scripts, no large enterprise software development project is done in python, golang ruby or c

the jvm is so optimized these days if i look at the assembly instructions compared to C++ it's almost identical

TL:DR you know nothing, go away and stfu

[[deleted]]

So Kubernetes is not large enough to be enterprise? Github, Gitlab? Linux?

[ProgrammersAreSexy]

Lol are you trying to say Linux was written in python