> However, there's a reason Java is in the top 3 most popular languages. Its pragmatic, it scales, it plays nice with tooling and the language itself is pretty passable.
I wonder if those are true reasons. I currently believe in the following set of reasons, in the order of importance: runaway feedback loop of popularity (popularity -> jobs -> popularity), JVM is cross-platform, low cognitive effort per line of code written.
I wonder if those are true reasons. I currently believe in the following set of reasons, in the order of importance: runaway feedback loop of popularity (popularity -> jobs -> popularity), JVM is cross-platform, low cognitive effort per line of code written.