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Go wasn't around when D was released and Java has for the longest time been quite horrible (I first learnt it before diamond inference was a thing, but leaving that aside it's been overly verbose and awkward until relatively recently).
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Is Java even a "systems programming" language?

I don't even know what that term means anymore; but afaik Java didn't really have reliable low-level APIs until recently.


Depends if one considers writing compilers, linkers, JITs, database engines, and running bare metal on embedded real time systems "systems programming".

so, "yes", but with added sarcasm? :D



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