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		FlyingSnake on Aug 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04 I’m curious, why not Java? I’m sure Java and JVM languages like Kotlin are quite popular in the industry.

andrewstuart on Aug 16, 2022 [–]

It's just my opinion that Java is waning in popularity.

It will always be big and always be around, but it's losing popularity.

rnk on Aug 16, 2022 | [–]

Your list was surprising but I'm in infrastructure software. There seems endless demand for c++, java and lately rust as the languages used for database implementations.

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