If Java was dead, they wouldn't have to shout down with Java. Rumors of Java's death have been greatly...oh, you know. Java's in the running to be the world's

If Java was dead, they wouldn't have to shout down with Java. Rumors of Java's death have been greatly...oh, you know. Java's in the running to be the world's most widely used programming language. This is, in large part, due to Android. http://news.softpedia.com/news/the-top-10-all-time-programming-languages-on-github-489852.shtml#sgal_0 http://news.softpedia.com/news/the-top-10-all-time-programmi... It so happens that a lot of companies have bet their stacks on Java. Java is the language of Hadoop. In addition to the companies you mention, there's Amazon, eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter. (There are plenty of other great languages that outperform Java in one way or another, but this post is just to make that point that Java is far from dead...) It's a stable language with a huge ecosystem, that's growing all the time. Our project, http://deeplearning4j.org http://deeplearning4j.org, gives it deep neural networks that run distributed...