On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote:
> According to the evolution of adopted languages, Java, C, C# and ObjC > (which BTW has reached the 3rd position according to Tiobe) are the ones > adopted by the industry. That is, there has been no evolution of the top > languages in fifteen years and clearly Scala, Roby, Python and what else > are still irrelevant. ObcJ is a different story, but its percentage is more > related to the community use (many small developers) than the industry. Agreed. Two quick comments: - The industry moves at much slower pace than early adopters. We're talking twenty/twenty-five years for an industry to embrace a new language. The number of books, articles, conferences and more generally buzz is completely irrelevant to assess this. - The motivation for an industry to move to a new software technology is much more driven by how painful the current technology has become than how promising the new one is. I am firmly convinced that as of today, Java remains very popular with developers and businesses alike, so it still hasn't reached the pain point that C++ had reached in the mid nineties. You need a starving population for a revolution to happen, and I'm just not seeing it with Java right now. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
