Oh yeah, the worlds almost-tied-with-the-#1 language is nearing end of life and merely hanging in there.
What a load of bollocks. For the web my personal opinion is that HTML5 is clearly going to win that fight. But JavaFX isn't just applets. In fact it's mostly not applets. On May 4, 3:34 pm, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 4, 1:26 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Flash isn't on there. Neither is actionscript. What is on there is > > 'Rich Internet Applications' as well as 'JVM'. > > Flash and Java FX both got a methion on the previous 'radar' (along > with Silverlight) as to why they're no longer on the A (B or C) list. > Basically, they're the blondes of the software world; They look great > but, ultimately, don't add content. (The preceding January 'radar' is > worth looking at, for the sake of comparison.) > > > So, win for java, lose for flash. > > Anything but. > Java (the language) is certainly not a winner, merely hanging in there > because it is currently so widespread. Only the JVM is healthy, > thanks to Groovy, Scala and the like. > > > It's also just one site's opinion. > > It doesn't matter. Not all opinions are equal. > > -- > 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.
