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		impulser_ on April 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New E... I'm not talking about people that have been writing Java for years. I'm talking about new programmers. If you asked a new programmer out of college which job they would rather have I job programming Go applications or Java. I would bet 90% of them would pick Go.

kaba0 on April 12, 2023 [–]

And they will agains say the current hyped language a year later. It’s almost like we shouldn’t really cater to “new programmers out of college”.

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