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You have to agree that there is some truth to O'Grady's arguments. There has been a lot of hate about Java in the recent times, but its not just inertia that is
by wicknicks 13y ago
You have to agree that there is some truth to O'Grady's arguments. There has been a lot of hate about Java in the recent times, but its not just inertia that is keeping Java in the market. There is just no competitor to that language and its ecosystem. The youtube description refers to these new languages "newer, more hyped alternatives". As much as I would love functional constructs, syntactic sugar in Java, such features are not solving the real problems one expects from a programming language in the long run.
- smrtinsert 13y agoExactly. Five years ago Ruby was the savior - now everyone and their mother is out to show how node is the new hotness. If you've used js on a serious project you know this is just another dead end - which is why the big bucks go to jvm or clr jobs.
- ilaksh 13y agoI've used Node and JavaScript on a lot of serious projects. Its working great. I prefer CoffeeScript though. I have worked on a large Scala/Java project that was converted to JavaScript/CoffeeScript and the complexity, availability of modules, and especially resource usage is hugely in Node's favor.
- el_fuser 13y agoAbsolutely. It's not a very sexy language, and I can't stomach a lot of JEE, but the language and the jvm are absolute workhorses. Especially when you're dealing with high performance networking code.