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Considering IBM/SAP are vowing to bring Swift to masses on servers and clients. Apple/MS dropped Java quite a while back. I do not see any big vendor with serio

by geodel 10y ago

Considering IBM/SAP are vowing to bring Swift to masses on servers and clients. Apple/MS dropped Java quite a while back. I do not see any big vendor with serious money to pick Java development. Redhat is there but I doubt they will when they might be looking to push Ceylon. Of course it is hypothetical as I absolutely do not think Oracle will consider doing such thing.

pjmlp 10y ago
Oracle had already a big bet on Java before they bough Sun. Many of the Oracle-hate group aren't aware of the NC Computer and the JavaStation, or that already in 2000 most of the Oracle GUI tools were Java based. So on one hand they have lots of interest in Java and have been better than Sun in its last years, but they also have not been handling JEE, JavaFX and mobile support on iOS and WP that well. Also many of the nice goodies in language evolution have been postponed for Java 10 (AOT, value types, JNI replacement). Being too old at this game I have the same feelings that Java might follow Clipper or Delphi footsteps, if Oracle looses interest in the tech stack and no one picks it up, regardless how ingrained Java is nowadays. IBM is not only looking at Swift, they also have made J9 modular as a framework for implementing language runtimes.