A colleague and I were talking about this recently. I made the comment that it seemed Java, which my company had recently adopted for all our projects, seemed to be losing popularity, and he made the point that he thought a big reason for that is that Java just works. There's no big problem to get attention or complain about; it does the job you want it to with very little hassle. Perhaps there is less talking because there is less to talk about.
I'm all for Java development finding focus and momentum again, but if Java 7 doesn't come out anytime soon, I'm not going to be crying or feeling cheated; I'm certainly not going back to .NET and really don't have any intention of using another JVM-based language. The things that would make Java easier for me to develop with, like JAI actually being useful, a better tool for rapidly building interfaces, an easy way to obfuscate, probably aren't going to come with Java 7 anyway. And there certainly isn't anything on that chart that makes me think Java is going away anytime soon. On Apr 16, 1:00 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't buy these stats. Go is #15? Who is actually using Go? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
