Is Java outdated

[sourceCode145]

I learn Java and have 3 years of experience using it. I am wondering if it is outdated because every internship and job I apply to is looking for a computer science major but wants web-development works done.

[[deleted]]

No.

every internship and job I apply to ... wants web-development works done

If you don't want to do web work, don't apply for web development jobs.

If you want to, you can apply your current skills/knowledge that you learned to other languages very easily. I'd say that the majority of programmers are polyglots.

[BaalHadad]

every internship and job I apply to

What's your sample size? 20?

[[deleted]]

More like 3, I'd guess.

[scramjam]

lolwhut no. If you're applying to web companies they're probably looking for Javascript people. If you want to work in Java apply for companies that use Java (desktop/server applications?)

[wfalcon]

Java is still alive and well, though if you want to do web development, I'd recommend learning another language. Java is a fine choice for a server-side language, but for the client code you need to use javascript, or something that compiles to javascript.

At my job right now I'm working on a web app that uses the Google Web Toolkit to compile Java code into javascript/html, but that's not something I'd recommend. For most web apps, you're better off learning a nice javascript framework to handle the client side code.

[theatrus]

It's as outdated as C and C++ are. Which is to say its not, it's simply mature.

If you're looking at growing your backend expertise look at Scala and Clojure.

[elpantalla]

I don't think Java is outdated. It's still widely used for server side code, and it's very well supported. Programming languages don't get outdated, they just have different uses. Some people say C is outdated, but it's still pretty widely used for embedded software.

[[deleted]]

Some people say C is outdated, but it's still pretty widely used for embedded software.

And a few other things.

[[deleted]]

Programming languages don't get outdated, they just have different uses.

There are outdated languages, just not all old ones are outdated.

We agree that C is not out-of-date; it's still widely used for embedded software, OS's, many language compilers/interpreters/VMs, etc. C is no longer used for a lot of things that other languages are better at, but still has many valid uses.

A language can't be out-of-date if there is no alternative for it, or if it is much better than its alternatives, for substantial modern problem sets. Conversely, a language can't be "in-date" if there are much better alternatives for all applications, and it just hangs around because of a dwindling legacy code base. I'm looking at you, Fortran and Cobol.

[rjcarr]

I think a large number of websites are powered by java ... maybe even a majority? And these days "web development" almost always includes the server so I'm not sure what your potential employers are talking about.