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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2789725" data-attributes="member: 31734">I'll point out that when people compare "amounts" of code -- e.g. there might be more COBOL code than C++ code out there, it's not generally a fair assessment.  Two programs in different languages doing the same thing will never have the same amount of code.  On the other hand, just trying to compare the number of applications isn't entirely fair because there are things like device drivers, SDK's, etc. that would skew the numbers.Fwiw, I use C/C++ in the medical field, with a little bit of assembly for device drivers.  Back when I wrote high performance image generator stuff for the DoD I used C++ exclusively.  Ada was in another department and was getting phased out and is mostly phased out of the stuff I see around (which is quite a bit actually considering companies like Lockheed-Martin and SAIC).Java will die soon unless it's performance starts getting better.  Buyers have proven that performance is more desirable than flexibility/portability.  Java just doesn't cut it and might not improve fast enough.  If your company uses java (for anything other than web development), you had better have a backup plan within 5 years. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>