It’s fairly ingrained in the programming world now. A lot of common problems are known and solved. A lot of devs can code in Java with little uptake. Java runs everywhere. The tools are pretty good.
Desktop apps and servers run it. So like, processing things and all that run well with it.
As mentioned before, Android uses it too. So there’s a lot going on.
Just as an example, I worked as a contractor with the biggest bank in Latin America before and basically all their server code is Java (with new code in Kotlin nowadays).
I’m not a programmer, but why is Java so high up? Are that many devices still running it?
Java is #1 in enterprise. Pretty solid.
It’s fairly ingrained in the programming world now. A lot of common problems are known and solved. A lot of devs can code in Java with little uptake. Java runs everywhere. The tools are pretty good.
Desktop apps and servers run it. So like, processing things and all that run well with it.
As mentioned before, Android uses it too. So there’s a lot going on.
Just as an example, I worked as a contractor with the biggest bank in Latin America before and basically all their server code is Java (with new code in Kotlin nowadays).
A lot of commercial apps are built with it. And if you’re not using Kotlin, you’re probably using Java for Android dev.
Java is the dominant platform for web services, and some FANGs even standardized their infrastructure around it.
Also, Java is basically the default programming language in some degrees.
Do they still have the “billions of devices running java” banner when installing the jre? They could be including Android, as it mostly uses Java.