Java and Developer Advocacy with Trisha Gee

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“I really enjoyed the challenge of taking complicated things that apparently only really smart people should understand, and explaining them to everybody.”

Trisha Gee is a Java developer and Java Champion. She is currently a Developer Advocate at JetBrains, where she focuses on educating developers on various tools and IDEs.

Questions

  • What does a developer advocate do?
  • What does JetBrains do?
  • How was your experience responding to the pushback when JetBrains announced the new subscription model?
  • How has Java changed since you first started working with it?
  • Why have so many languages been built on the JVM?
  • Is Java declining in popularity?
  • Has high frequency trading ruined the public markets?

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