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I'd encourage you to try Go or Rust, great ecosystems, great communities and lots of problems of programming languages of the 2000s are solved in much saner ways (dependency management, type checking, etc). There has been tremendous progress in programming languages in the last 20 years, it would be a shame to not learn about them and be super excited about them.

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Rust and golang are not really in the same space. Rust is more of a C++ competitor, while golang is somewhere between python/ruby and Java/C#. Furthermore, there really isn't anything that golang does that Java or C# don't, but the latter do it in a much more saner way, especially Java now with Loom on the way. Unless you really need to compile to binaries, but both ecosystems are getting solutions in the works (GraalVM and Native AOT).

Sure, Java is going to take off and rule the world ....

Not sure if this is the joke, but it pretty much already does.

It was meant to be sarcastic, but I can see how you might think that it could be. I’ve never written a line of Java in my career but it’s probably more widespread in other parts of the industry.

I haven’t heard a developer being excited about writing Java in a long time.

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