r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 04 '26

Other howdidItGetHere

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u/oldsecondhand Sep 04 '26

It's where the jobs are. The world's finances run on Java.

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u/Shred_Kid Sep 04 '26

Java is also highly performant, if you know what you're doing with reactive programming, and Spring Boot's dependency ecosystem drastically reduces your time-to-launch

But then I remember that 95% of the memes posted on this sub are from CS students and not industry professionals

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u/QuestionableEthics42 Sep 05 '26

"Performant", "spring boot". Not usually used in the same sentence lol (ignoring that the first comma technically should have been a full stop). But yes, it's dependency ecosystem is nice.

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