Java is king. Take away all the AI batch stuff and Python would shrink more. Putting python in production for online applications has many issues (trust me, I know). Java is very robust, performs well, tons of mindshare, pretty good frameworks (Spring Boot, Quarkus), and very good IDE support.
- A decent type system, which makes it better than Python, JavaScript, R
- Runtime errors with good stack traces instead of UB for things like invalid casts or null dereference, which makes it better than C++
- Automatic memory management without complex borrowing rules, which makes it (arguably, for some situations) better than Rust
- The JVM targets many different platforms and Java programs often “just work”, which makes it better than Swift
- Decent abstraction, which makes it better than Go
- Large ecosystem, which makes it better than Dart or Nim or Zig
- C#? I’m not sure, C# is a lot like Java. IMO what Java has which is better than C# is Kotlin and better JetBrains support
Now Java isn’t perfect. In fact I prefer Kotlin (always), Rust (despite the increased difficulty), and Swift (if the platform allows) as general-purpose languages. But unlike those, Java is one of the ancient big languages everyone knows about, and compared to the others (JavaScript, Python, C++) it’s the best general-purpose language by far.
Lol so people are getting PhDs in hype? I think not. It's also been like 10-15 years at this point. Me thinks springboot will disappear before pytorch.
Oracle does not own the Java programming language itself. Java is an open-source language, and Oracle primarily maintains Java SE and Java EE platforms implementation. But, there are other implementations and open-source versions of Java, e.g. OpenJDK, which are not owned by Oracle.
