Sure, anyone can pick up a new language or two over a weekend. That doesn’t mean they are confident enough to contribute to large scale programs with it. That takes much longer to learn.
Sure, anyone can pick up a new language or two over a weekend. That doesn’t mean they are confident enough to contribute to large scale programs with it. That takes much longer to learn.
Anyone can quickly learn how to solve some code challenges in a new language.
It’s a completely different story to learn how to write long lived enterprise scale programs that can grow with multiple independent contributors. This takes a lifetime to learn. More people have more experience to do it with Java.
It’s by amount of pull requests, so the length of class names and other Java boilerplate doesn’t count.
You’re delusional if you believe people care about Nim. It has been around for 16 years and is still nothing in comparison to Java. Java won’t go anywhere and is here to stay.
Who cares? If it works, it works.
The biggest strength of Java is that many programmers has years or even decades of experience in it.
The cope is strong. Let’s not pretend fewer active users is a good thing. It just means people are unhappy and are leaving.
The good thing about the var keyword is that it’s still statically typed. The IDE can figure out the type for you if you hover over it.