Java is not dead. Like all good parents, it has sat and patiently raised its children, and they are now adults themselves. and also, like most parents with grown-up children, it's reached retirement age.
So, Java, we salute you, and all you have done in raising a successful family. Be proud of your achievements... and get out there on that golf course to enjoy a less stressful existence for the remainder of your years! On 31 August 2010 10:22, Romain Pelisse <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
