Rumors of Java's death are greatly exaggerated. I can tell you that the article has failed to mention some other major companies that are using Java and are (be

Rumors of Java's death are greatly exaggerated. I can tell you that the article has failed to mention some other major companies that are using Java and are (believe it or not!) bigger than LinkedIn and Twitter. Anyways, since when did googling for "X is dead" mean anything? I just googled for "Obama is dead" and got 111,000,000 hits. I guess that makes Obama 13 times more dead than Java. Somebody get me a copy-editor. I'll give the author some points: the discussion that followed the ridiculous intro was a somewhat interesting, if dissembling, defense of Java. In the end though, it's all just some private pondering. Java's death won't come at the declaration of some enterprising young turks who like Ruby (hey, I like Ruby too) battling it out over mailing lists and blogs. Programming languages, like old soldiers, don't die; they fade away... and very slowly.