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Originally Posted by chili5
Wow i didn't know java was the most popular language that page is really interesting with the chart of popular languages. A lot of the languages on there I've never heard of such as D and SAS.
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I'm surprised people think otherwise. All that server and web software that runs Java. People wouldn't hate it if it weren't extensively used.
It's worth noting that the application space (which Java doesn't do well in) is only a tiny amount of the code that gets written. C is second there and there are very few applications written in C.
D is a relatively new language which is often described as C++ done right. It loses a lot of the direct compatibility with C (though it can call C functions) and also loses some of the more exotic functions of C++. It's close to Java and C# but compiles native.