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Why Java endures: The foundation of modern enterprise development (github.blog)
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Funny story, friend and I were just talking last night about how Java 8 is still used everywhere.

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[–] balder1993@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

Besides what other people said, one example is classes being closed by default (you need to explicitly set a keyword to make them open to extension). That was done to prevent inheriting from classes that weren’t designed to be inherited, and forcing you to use composition instead.