It is a common misconception that people still think Java is relevant in today’s day and age. In reality Java is a dying programming language. Java has been one of the most widely-used and popular programming languages in the world, but is in danger of dying soon. Today, Java has a large and active developer community, and is still used for a wide range of applications, including web development, mobile app development, and enterprise-level software development, but will Java survive the next 10 years? Lets find out what misconceptions developers have about Java :

Misconception 1 : Java has a large and active developer community. There are millions of Java developers around the world, and the language has a strong presence on online forums and communities where developers share knowledge and resources.

While this continues to be true, the rate at which developers are moving over to other platforms and programming language is telling and I have personally seen developers jump ship in panic. The main problem is that java as a programming language has not been modernized and hence it still remains verbose, combines the worst of both worlds between static and dynamic typing by having a hobbled but extremely clunky type system, and mandates running on a VM that has a macroscopic startup time (not an issue for long-running servers, but painful for command-line applications). While it performs pretty well nowadays, it still isn’t competitive with C or C++ and, with a little love, C#, Go, Rust & Python can or will eclipse it in that domain. For real-world production servers, it tends to require a fair amount of JVM tuning and very hard to get it right.