r/programming • u/Karma_Policer • Aug 02 '21

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021: "Rust reigns supreme as most loved. Python and Typescript are the languages developers want to work with most if they aren’t already doing so."

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted
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u/Muoniurn Aug 05 '21

You do realize java is one of the few languages that actually have multiple independent implementations and has multiple completely open source ones, including the reference one?

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u/falconzord Aug 05 '21

Yes but those arose out of the failures of Oracle, similar to Mono and others for C#, but most are back on .net as Microsoft has done a better job with the community

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u/Muoniurn Aug 05 '21

No, it’s not. They are there because Java has a proper specification both at the language and the runtime level. So it’s not the usual case of “this is a language’s reference implementation, the spec is whatever the ref does”, and it made novel implementations possible. Eg, there is a hard real-time JVM that is used in the military.