Departure Of The Java Hyper-Enthusiasts?

TomH writes "Bruce Eckel has an article at Aritma, where he posits that 'The Java hyper-enthusiasts have left the building, leaving a significant contingent of Java programmers behind, blinking in the bright lights without the constant drumbeat of boosterism.' Has the previous hype of Java and J2EE moved on to Ruby (on Rails) and Python?"

Comments

Don't plan the party just yet

[curtlewis]

There are still a lot of companies, in their misguided foolishness, developing on Java technology. It was the buzzword so they jumped on the bandwagon. Nevermind a little common sense mixed with practical experience.

Nothing will make me happier than to see the piles of junk referred to as various types of Java technology fade from existence. The bloated, memory pigs that will happily do your garbage collection for you (sometime, maybe, perhaps, if it feels like it) sucked when they were first released and the suck fest just kept going. I will admit that java servlets did reasonably well, but there are other technologies that work just as well for that.

But it's going to be a long time before people learn to adapt and drop the dying technology. Those that do, will move on, those that don't wil move on to the unemployment line.

I'm looking forward to the Java is dead party myself!

Re:maybe to ruby, not python

[Tumbleweed]

I'm thinking that the type of programmer who can't wrap his head around whitespace in Python is perhaps a programmer one could do without.