Seems like the only widespread use for java clients are enterprise apps and dev tools. And enterprise clients are becoming less and less relevant IMO - enterprise is going web only.
anecdotally: I use 4: IDEA, Eclipse, DB Visualizer, and Spark. So 3 dev tools and 1 enterprise. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Kirk <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know.. I still see client Java being used all over the place. In > fact I just got off a call from lead that who's client is pure Java. I know > many more similar cases. > Regards, > Kirk > On Jul 22, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ....Minecraft?....Spiral Knights.... >> It seems almost strange that just as it seems like client Java has been >> dying the death, two highly popular games come out based on it. > > The fact that there are only two popular games written in Java is probably > the clearest sign that client Java is dead. > Okay, to be fair, it's "Java as a language to write games" that is dead. > Java clients are a little less dead, but they still smell a bit funny. > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
