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The future of back-end development (lemm.ee)
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What are your opinions on the future of back-end web development? Is the Java ecosystem going to wither away as more modern and better solutions are emerging and maturing?

If so, which language/framework and/or programming paradigm do you think will become the new dominant player and how soon?

Personally I would love to see Rust becoming a new standard, it's a pleasure to write and has a rapidly growing ecosystem, I don't think it's far away from overtaking Java. The biggest hurdle imo is big corporations taking a pretty big risk by choosing a relatively new language that's harder to learn compared to what has been the standard for decades.

Playing it safe means you minimize surprises and have a very large amount of people that are already experts in the language.

Taking the risk will definitely improve a lot of things given that you find enough people that know or are willing to learn Rust, but it also means that you're trading off Java flaws with Rust flaws. That's the case however with every big change, and Java flaws are a good enough reason to make a big change.

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[–] snowe 3 points 1 year ago

I really think you’re overstating how difficult Kotlin is to learn. I’ve converted over 30 people to Kotlin, and it doesn’t take more than a few minutes for them to get the gist of it. If you use Lombok it’s even easier. Just say it’s Lombok without all the bytecode manipulation, it’s actually part of the language.

People love using it once they see it. I’ve had one single person go back to using Java after using Kotlin. Do you use anything like groovy, cucumber, aspectj, powermock, etc? If so you have an even greater argument here. It’s much easier to learn Kotlin than to get any new employee up to speed on those tools and frameworks.

Just try. It really sounds like you don’t believe in yourself here. I wasn’t high ranking when I switched my last company over to Kotlin. The language really speaks for itself. There are also plenty of resources giving you ammo for convincing.