nixCraft 🐧I recently saw an IBM presentation on how AI will help eliminate COBOL once and for all. Basically, they are trying to sell a tool that uses their WatsonX cloud service to convert COBOL to Java with the help of the current buzzword named generative AI. Let me tell you, COBOL has outlasted most of the tech that was invented since 1965 and I think it will outlast generative AI, too.
Meanwhile, kids are asking on other social media why not use NodeJS instead of Java. Good god, we are doomed, aren't we?
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦@nixCraft @sirwumpus OMG yes.
You can’t imagine how *GLEEFUL* I was to find that a cross-platform tool I loaded for the first time was in fact NOT Electron or NodeJS but (shocking) Java. I had to let it loads parts of itself from Maven. It was very comforting.
You can’t imagine how *GLEEFUL* I was to find that a cross-platform tool I loaded for the first time was in fact NOT Electron or NodeJS but (shocking) Java. I had to let it loads parts of itself from Maven. It was very comforting.
Steve@grumpybozo @nixCraft @sirwumpus one upon a time that would have been an “oh fuck no, not Java” where now it’s “yay Java” and the irony isn’t that it’s something Oracle did, but rather everything else just got a lot more terrible
SirWumpus 👾🍁@lilstevie @grumpybozo @nixCraft
I can code Java, not fond of it much though (unless I treat it like a fancy C), because it has become a kitchen sink of libraries you don't necessarily need and SO verbose just to do the simplest stuff. Now that might just be an artifact of
I can code Java, not fond of it much though (unless I treat it like a fancy C), because it has become a kitchen sink of libraries you don't necessarily need and SO verbose just to do the simplest stuff. Now that might just be an artifact of
Oh Java is an OOP language, I should write OOP all the time (not). When you treat it a little more like C, it can work nice and lean.