Some recent surveys have seen the Java language’s lead over other languages erode in recent years. In addition, the days of the rapid buildout of the platform APIs is over. How will Java avoid the same fate than Cobol?
What trends in hardware and systems technology is being factored into the ongoing evolution of the Java platform to stave off its untimely death ? What are the key technologies that are going to keep Java at the top of the heap for the next 25 years ? This video discusses the major trends in application and systems development, such as multiple languages, parallel programming, application frameworks and how successfully Java is staying ahead of the curve.
Video Producer: JavaZone Conference
I never know whether or not to take these posts about Java dying seriously or not. OF course it’s not going to die. The only thing possibly *slightly* making it die is posts like this and similar that claim it’s losing it’s edge, ruby/php/python/etc are doing better, etc. There are more java developers in the world than any other language. It’s supported by a ton of big companies.. three of the biggest (ibm, oracle and google) among many others. Anyone silly enough to think those companies are going to rewrite their eniter sweet of java depedent solutions, along with the entire Android mobile market being reworked, and millions of set top boxes in homes all over the world need a wake up call. Java is here to stay. Oracle already has Java 8 release schedule, with 9 and 10 blueprints in the works.
Does that mean some other great language won’t rise? Nope. C/C++ will be around for many more years to come and even if some new language comes up and takes over.. Java has trillions of lines of code written out there that will be around for another 10+ years. There are still companies that will not move off of Java 1.3 even though Java 1.4 has already EOL and Java 5 is on it’s way!
So let’s stop posting about “Java is dying.. will java die, etc” and start promoting one of the greatest languages available for every platform and OS.