On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, you're right, I should have mentioned market push. It's rather likely > (to me, anyway) that java gained quite a bit of traction due to Sun's > cheerleading of it, along with the uptake by i.e. IBM relatively early on.
This been my belief for a while. I, of course, have nothing to back this up. :) > Google adopts or makes a new programming language to replace java for > android development to avoid some lawsuits, and via that route we'll get a > java.next. Huh. Cool theory. I simply meant more that I feel like Android is pulling in more new "java" developers than any other technology out there at the moment. For a long time, web development seemed to be the big pull to any technology. Now, it appears that "app" development is the big pull and that appears dominated by obj-c and java for Android. If someone were to release a compelling dev kit for Android that had a different language, I would imagine it would gain traction rather quickly. -- 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.
