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Results 1 – 10 of about 8,620,000 for java is dead. Dead indeed. Results 1 - 10 of about 22,200,000 for obama is a muslim. Muslim indeed. On a more serious no
by tsally 17y ago
Results 1 – 10 of about 8,620,000 for java is dead. Dead indeed.
Results 1 - 10 of about 22,200,000 for obama is a muslim. Muslim indeed.
On a more serious note, the JVM is a platform that enterprise has a lot of experience deploying and securing. As the author admits, the JVM doesn't need Clojure or anything else to save it; it's entrenched in enterprise. This, combined with the fact that even COBOL isn't dead yet, makes me think that Java has a long way to go. Languages never die because there are better ones out there. It's certainly not trendy, but companies are going to need Java programmers for a helluva long time.
- ionfish 17y agoResults 1 - 10 of about 936 for "java is dead". Changes quite a bit if you quote it, leaving out pages with headlines like "Dozens dead in Java quake." People should think a bit more carefully before referencing numbers like these.
- rbanffy 17y agoBTW, has anyone tried to port COBOL to the JVM? Sounds like an viable idea for a startup. edit: it seems a company called Veryant already did it (http://www.veryant.com/products/ http://www.veryant.com/products/)
- mahmud 17y agoProduct shops should be evaluated under a different light than service shops. Their existence shouldn't dissuade you from looking into the market; sometimes companies are stagnant ghost-ships that haven't done anything for ages. Other times they're an incompetent bunch with outsourced workers for a development team. In yet others, a product company only caters to one big client or two, or is geographically focused in one area. If you don't see their name in industry publications and trade conferences they're as good as dead. Google their products and see if anybody is looking for help with them online. If they have a small user community, you can get a feel for how well they're doing. If there is no visible user community, well, there is either no market or the "company" is just a brochure website for vaporware.
- Kaizyn 17y agoThere's also the NACA project: http://code.google.com/p/naca/ http://code.google.com/p/naca/ A European company's IT staff built it over a period of several years, and it looks like a fairly impressive bit of engineering: http://media-tech.blogspot.com/2009/06/naca-presented-jazoon-2009.html http://media-tech.blogspot.com/2009/06/naca-presented-jazoon...