It's ridiculous to say that Java is dead. When I glance at the Strange Loop conference, Java ecosystem tools are quite prevalent: Scala is extremely popular, Clojure is popular as well, Akka is a Scala/Java lib that has some brilliant ideas, neo4j is very exciting it's attacking some really interesting problems and has a lot of momentum, and Android is prevalent on the client side. There is also lots of non-Java tools and languages that are amazing and many brilliant toolset-agnostic concepts.
If you are excited about the Strange Loop type stuff, Java (the ecosystem) is connected to a lot of that and is quite vibrant. If you have some weird militant hatred for Java, sure there are great alternatives. Java the language itself has stagnated... I'd argue that the Python language isn't particularly interesting by itself, although many of the libraries that are being built within the Python space are absolutely amazing and cutting edge. On Jul 1, 10:06 am, robogeek <[email protected]> wrote: > We at Sun (I was there for 10+ years) failed to make Java a compelling > platform for anything but server side applications. And even there -- > with my experience of working with Node.js over the last 6 months, > there are up-and-coming alternatives that could render Java moot for > server side stuff. > > When some things die they linger for years and some people continue > thinking of the thing as still alive. Aren't there still people > writing new COBOL? > > + David > Herronhttp://davidherron.comhttp://www.packtpub.com/node-javascript-web-development/book -- 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.
