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@Bro-Drillard @Moon All the popular uses for it seem to have been replaced
* Java applets - Replaced by JavaScript
* Indie game development - Mostly done in C#, Lua, and JS now
* Android app development - Kotlin seems to be replacing it even though it still uses JVM
* Web server stuff - I hardly ever see a .JSP extension on the web anymore
@xianc78 @Bro-Drillard Java webapps moved to a java servlet model rather than pointing directly at jsps with the JSP Model 2 architecture, it was proposed in 1999 and widely adopted in 2000 with the introduction of Apache Struts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSP_model_2_architecture
So a lot of Java code on the web is hidden. There are still ways you can tell it's a Java app by signs from various popular Java frameworks, for example banks and insurance portals often are still Java webapps. Java is good for very large programs. So is C# though and it has been taking away mindshare from Java for a long time by having better tooling, visual studio is far superior to anything in the Java ecosystem and I say that as someone that still prefers Java.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSP_model_2_architecture
So a lot of Java code on the web is hidden. There are still ways you can tell it's a Java app by signs from various popular Java frameworks, for example banks and insurance portals often are still Java webapps. Java is good for very large programs. So is C# though and it has been taking away mindshare from Java for a long time by having better tooling, visual studio is far superior to anything in the Java ecosystem and I say that as someone that still prefers Java.
there is still a _ton_ of java out in backend systems that nobody knows about or cares about until it breaks