On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 05:20, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > A while ago, java dipped below C's rating in the tiobe programming > index, and this caused the usual battery of 'java is dying' doomsayers > to crop up, some even here on the javaposse forum.
And BTW: In the meantime Java is in pole position again. And those who are comparing the decrease in Java with the Increase of C# do not consider that in most cases, where people move to C# is that they are coming from Visual Basic (I don't know anybody switching from Java to C# but I know plenty of people moving from C++ or Visual Basic to .net and some moving from C++ or Visual Basic to Java). If you consider this fact, you notice that the decrease of the use of VB is more than the gain of C# - ergo: It is very likely that Microsoft is loosing market share in software development branch. And that is no wonder IMHO because: Learning a new programming language is a long-term investment. In front of the current situation and possible futures it does not make much sense to focus on a language bound to a particular platform. Even although there is Mono, I have heard and read too much about incompatibilities so I would not take the risk if there are other choices. Personally my guess is that a big part of the decrease in Java is because of newer languages like Groovy or Scala and some are moving to those (or trying those on some new projects). OK, I am sure there are even samples moving from Java to C# - even if just because of a change in job. I really wonder, why there is no RISE in Java. OK, many thinking of changing their main programming language - from a current point of view - maybe look to Scala for example. But there is yet no guarantee that this will be the next generation of Java. I would guess that some of the new folks would still choose Java because they want to go the stable path. But there is another interesting thing. I summed up the statistics from tiobe and the result is a total minus of -3,2 % - I hope the percentage is not calculated from the languages part because then those percentages are not really comparable. But as the total of the top 20 is "only" about 89 percent of total ,probably the dispersal is more to other minor languages in general - this would confirm somehow the rise of more and more programming languages - basically there are more created than dying... -- Martin Wildam -- 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.
