Its even worse than a controversial headline. Its lazy blogging/reporting. In the actual world things don't have to die for new things to appear. In the world

Its even worse than a controversial headline. Its lazy blogging/reporting. In the actual world things don't have to die for new things to appear. In the world of blogs and newspapers - each product must slay the ones that have gone before: "will this product replace all iphone sales?" - and then of course "product fails because all iphone owners didn't sell them and buy the new product". I guess for programming languages there is also some one up-manship - "I'm better than all you people over there because my language of choice is still alive". I could perhaps understand the articles point a little if Java had just stopped being flavour of the month - but it stopped being that years ago. It might not be the "sexy" choice but there is a huge amount of the worlds IT infrastructure running on Java and I don't reckon that's going to stop any time soon.