I went to a university open day for the lecturer to tell me multiple times they used "HTML, CSS and Java" in their Web Dev course. If it was a slip of the tongue, I get that, but he said "Java" instead of "JavaScript" at least four times.

I didn't think I'd ever decline a university offer, this guy proved me wrong.

There are Java Frameworks for Front End developing. So... Maybe, he told the truth?

@Draxes potentially, although I'm pretty sure he meant JS. If he did actually mean Java then I wouldn't really want to do that course anyway!

I'm making a java app and there are options for making it a web app.

I think both java and JavaScript could be web languages but only java has valid non-web uses (why put JS on a server? Or an OS?)

@DeveloperACE the point is moot. Node.js turned JavaScript into a general purpose language, so you can write any program using it nowadays.

Java is old and outdated and definitely not the best choice for back-end language. If they use Java applets that's even worse.

Clojure, Scala and several other languages run on JVM and provide a lot better alternatives.

@rastapasta42 Java may be outdated for web but it is definitely not outdated in general...

Oh god what have I started! 😂

@sambenge Java is just true love <3

@SirWindfield either like Java <3

THATS IT IM BRINGING IN THE BIG GUNS @JavaRules

@rastapasta42 I'm sorry, but did you just compare Applets to back-end Java? Are you feeling alright? Applets have been disabled since the fall of NPAPI. JavaEE has a 3 year projection for there next 3 versions! Who else is doing something like that? C# maybe. I'm not even going to list frameworks, well apart from Spring, which you should all know. Note: I'm a Java guy but i wouldn't use it on the front end.

@JavaRules is Java backend still a thing? I love Java but personally I would use something like golang as backend nowadays...

@SirWindfield come on man, what do you mean by still a thing? It the most used back end in the west by large companies. I would image that 99% of banks use it.

@JavaRules didn't oracle announce something of dropping JavaEE? Or am I mixing something up..?

@SirWindfield they announced on twitter about 2 weeks ago their plans for the next 3 versions of javaEE.

@JavaRules I am pretty sure they announced that they will drop support for feature X. Sorry, looks like I mixed something up here. :D

@SirWindfield did you say you use Go? I've never come across someone using that language. Ever. What's it like? Everywhere I've been is .net or javaEE. And php for simple stuff

@JavaRules I like it. I started to use as a small native stub to bootstrap my Java application and update it. It was nice because you can cross compile it on any machine. Later on I started to use it as a backend for my server. It works good, is fast and quite easy to maintain once you get the basic grasps of the programming style.