On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, clay <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I certainly agree that Java is alive and well, and I would caution against using conferences -- especially bleeding edge conferences such as Strange Loop (note: that's not a knock against Strange Loop, which I think is an awesome conference) -- to assess the vitality of (or lack thereof) a technology. By definition, the presentations you see in these conferences are experimental topics. At best, they can give you a sense for potential momentum, or an idea of where academia and tinkerers are experimenting with. In my opinion, the best way to find out if a technology is healthy, niche or dying is a combination of TIOBE and job boards, such as Dice, Monster, LinkedIn, etc... -- Cédric -- 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.
