Java 12
I&#x27;m so glad I was taught Java at Macquarie University back in 1998.  For the past 20 years I&#x27;ve had a career built on a solid API that doesn&#x27;t change every 2 years like some flavour-of-the-month Javascript framework.<p>Even on the client where Java has lost to Javascript, I&#x27;m finding it more enjoyable to add features to my 15-year-old SWT app [0] rather than dealing with the multiple layers of abstractions that is  Javascript+CSS+DOM (+ maybe Electron).  
Personally I think it&#x27;s a shame Sun dropped the ball with client Java - if they had chosen SWT over Swing and provided a minimal JVM then maybe Java Web Start would have beaten Javascript web apps. It&#x27;s also a shame Sun sold Java to Oracle - Google would have been a better steward, and probably would have been willing to pay more for the Java parts of Sun.<p>I&#x27;m now trying Dart to develop a few Flutter apps.  It&#x27;s no doubt a better language, but not <i>that much</i> better - I think Flutter would have been more successful if it was built on Java.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solaraccounts.co.uk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solaraccounts.co.uk</a>