I think that Java is already dead, we simply don't care about it :) I mean the last "dead technology" was C or C++ - people are still using those, the previous one was probably Cobol, still a lot of people using those and there is even backport of tools such as JUnit for Cobol !
Java has been there for so long that it is not going to disappear like Forte 4GL did overnight (but you might people using Forte, so even on this I maybe wrong). Perhaps we have reached a peak and Java will go slowly down, perhaps not. But Java is dead statement are plain nonsense. I think Java is getting older, that for sure. Java is no longer the language of choice for crazy new idea or new project. The slow adoption of Git/Mercurial in the Java world is a good hint to that (I think). late 2008 and early 2009 most of major non Java related Open Souce moved to Git or Mercurial. This shift happened one year later in the Java world. Java is like an old person, he doesn't run as he did in his youth, but he is far from being dead... On 31 August 2010 10:27, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've first heard that statement around 2001/2002. It was the first > time I started hearing that Java was dead, and at the time I got > seriously worried as I focused on Java since the inception of my > career - at the time, Java was six years old and it was not surprising > for a technology of that age to have reached its peak. I seriously > started looking around to discover what could have been the "next > thing" so I wasn't trapped into a dead end. Then I learned that it was > just nonsense and I stopped worrying. Of course, Java will eventually > die and I have to be careful not to be trapped into a dead end, but I > understood that those statements are not the proper canary in the coal > mine. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkx8vPsACgkQeDweFqgUGxcWhgCfVGXxijXEnc47FGmlHj3+7oxS > hlMAniJV5OzoHX2r2aK6x78T4RscTsWL > =lJR0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Romain PELISSE, "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it" -- Terry Pratchett http://belaran.eu/ -- 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.
