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Discussion on: Role of Java in modern web development

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George C. G. Barbosa

I think the biggest advantage of Java is that it is around for years and there are tons of libraries written on it that are available on maven. That said, because it is an enterprise language, it requires retro compatibility and some mistakes made on Java 1.0 are still around on java 14 or whatever version they are at. If you wanna take advantage of the JVM infrastructure and libraries written in java you can also try languages like scala, that compiles to JVM and allows you to use Java libraries oob.