Same here. I self-host it since 3 years and didn't feel the need to change it. A stable application which doesn't have any problems which OP mentioned.
I use it as a PWA on mobile.
I can agree with that. I still use my XPS from 2022 on a daily basis, but I regret it alot.
Battery life and cooling are unbelievably bad, it's a shame when you start thinking about the price.
In Germany or maybe Europe(?) many enterprises use Java for completely new services.
Some reasons I found:
- it's a matured stack with a matured framework (Spring)
- there's already a lot of Java knowledge in the company
- there are already existing services written in Java. Why should the company start to maintain another stack?
- there's a lot of Java knowledge walking outside the company. So hiring is easier.
- it's still taught as one of the first languages at universities.
I've only seen few alternatives for language usage:
- C#, but then you lock-in to Microsoft.
- Typescript, but there are still skeptics
Anyway, the number of companies who are adapting other languages like Go or Python is rising.
That's my biased perspective as a Cloud developer working in finance, IIoT. I don't know how it looks like for other areas.
There is no lock-in to Microsoft in C#. It hasn't been like that for years, and it's only getting better. IDE wise, there is Rider, which is free now, and one of the best IDE experiences you will have in any language (I personally prefer using VSCode which also has great support nowadays despite its rough history).
What kind of lock-in do you have in mind? E.g. the best serverless target for .NET is AWS Lambda. The often preferred IDE nowadays for .NET is Rider, some people use Neovim or Emacs. This statement is demonstrably false.
Java and C# are also different, targeting paradigms at a different level and providing different experience (.NET has smaller ecosystem but more "streamlined" experience, at the level of Rust and Go tooling, often better than the latter and more mature/stable than the former).
Not me and I don't know if it's small enough to answer your question, but at my university there was someone doing research in the area of locating and navigating visually impaired people in the outside and inside of buildings.
While HCI and indoor navigation is a wide area, visually impaired people have another requirements for UX, navigation hints etc. You need to do things more different.
He said that at the time he was doing research there were maybe 50-60 people worldwide who also published papers in the field.
So, when he went on conferences 2 or 3 times he met everytime the same people. But he also said that it's far easier to do some fundamental research in this field.
Does it also offer syntax highlighting?
One nice thing about Npp is not only the temp files and tabs, but also that it offers syntax highlighting if needed.
Sometimes when viewing a large Json it's nice to paste it in, turn on syntax highlighting and finding the information needed.
+1 for self hosted FreshRSS.
The only feature I'm missing from it is selecting multiple unread entries and marking them as 'read' instead of opening them one by one or marking the whole feed.
Other than that it gives a feeling like using the Google Reader.
And then you also have the books which cost 60€ and aren't even printed in color. I mean it makes sense for ecological reasons, but I can get books for 19€ that are colorized.
It would be a much better reading experience if some boxes would actually show colorized instead of different shades of grey.
Despite of the question being very unspecific I can’t tell you many details about alternatives. But: I think the biggest ones are Quarkus, Micronaut and Vertx. While Vertx defined itself more as a toolkit.
I never had the chance to try some of these for Production systems or for a proof of concept. This would be really interesting, but I think many companies lean towards Spring, because it is matured, has a big ecosystem and community and stays for so long. And all of this although Spring has a bigger footprint.
https://dkwr.de/ very small personal website.