> People still use Java?

In Fortune 500 ? YES , pretty much everywhere.

In Startups ? It's Kotlin or Scala mostly.

JVM is far from being unpopular , but fore sure it's not as sexy as ['React','Deno'].push(...)

You wouldn't say so if you only read HN

As it is continuously in the top 3 most popular languages, yes.

Well it's currently 4th and on a trend down.

Source?

the TIOBE index

That’s the worst possible answer to my question - unless you believe that visual basic is ahead of javascript, as TIOBE once proudly showed.

Honestly, just forget about it entirely, random.org reordering a list of PLs would be more accurate than that.

If you are interested, here is a ranking that has some relevance to the real world: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2...

if by the real world, you mean the web (lol), then sure

Yes, it's a fairly popular language

Companies do