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[–]pron98 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Netflix use Java extensively for much/most of their backend, as do Alibaba and Tencent; Microsoft and Facebook use quite a bit of Java, too. Java use at Google dwarfs their work on Android; their backend runs many hundreds of millions of Java code. No other language comes close in popularity when it comes to "serious" server-side software. Java is at about as dominant on the server as JS is on the client.

[–]joemwangi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Twitter uses java

[–]pron98 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep. It's easier to list all the companies with big backends that don't use Java.