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IMHO: The greatest strength of Java is back-compatibility; the greatest weakness of Java is back-compatibility. Thus, it will remain viable and frustrating. I
by 6ren 13y ago
IMHO: The greatest strength of Java is back-compatibility; the greatest weakness of Java is back-compatibility. Thus, it will remain viable and frustrating.
It's biggest problem (touched on in the talk) is that innovators are innovating elsewhere (e.g. sinatra). One day, this will cause the long fall of Java.
One would think Java's performance would be less important as CPUs get more powerful, but so far in practice we're seeing smaller devices and GPGPUs. It's possible Java will keep hitting a sweet-spot of usability/performance for generations to come, as C has.
- edwinnathaniel 13y agore: sinatra, please check JAX-RS :)
- 6ren 13y agoThanks. Yes, you can do it in Java (I did my own actually, with annotations), but... 1. copying is not innovating (sinatra was 2007) 2. it's hard to get into: http://www.sinatrarb.com/ http://www.sinatrarb.com/ has code above the fold; after hunting, the best code example I could find for JAX-RS was this http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-rs/jersey-hello-world-example/ http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-rs/jersey-hello-world-...