• Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Everyone is ok with Python. It’s a reasonable choice that’s well known, well understood and doesn’t have a lot of negatives. There’s a million libraries for it so it’s easy to get started and add support for new things.

    I’ve never met a hobbyist developer who writes Java for fun. It lives in the enterprise world mostly, and not much else that I’ve seen.

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      From what I remember, the idea was that since a lot of people already use Java for work, they wouldn’t have to relearn a language to contribute.