There were 10x fewer developers in general back then. And who's going to take over that community once all its current members retire?
The cool kids of the future ain't going to learn Java once companies move to a better technology. It may take decades, but eventually people will stop building new code in the language.
Exactly. Even-though my livelihood right now comes from Python, I was trained in Java in my university(along with C). I did some coding(web scrapping) in Python but that was it. I still can and willing to write in Java.
The cool kids of the future ain't going to learn Java once companies move to a better technology. It may take decades, but eventually people will stop building new code in the language.