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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?"
Sorry.
"Made up/misattributed quote that makes me look smart. I am on
What about AJAX?
Doesn't it get to be on rails too? Or is it going to be limited to that accursed "rubber wheel" we've been hearing about?
This "Ruby on Rails" sounds like a monopoly in the making.
/. should be wary
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Whatever praise it gets is well deserved.
perception is reality
My worst write-only nightmare...
*runs screaming from building*
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
(Slashdot reader) writes, "(Uknown pundit) wrote an article about (Technology that we're not currently fond of), based on conjecture and personal opinion. Does this mean that (Technology flavor of the month) is taking over?
Bottom line: you clearly confuse a university with a trade school.
So what you're saying is that Java is being ridden out of town on a Rail?
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
Well done, sir, I salute you.
-- RLJ
Java is one of the first languages that was well planned and well designed with a theoretical basis in mind.
Was that before or after the designers decided "well, we better make the syntax pretty similar to C++, so there's a chance people might adopt it"?
Aha! This story was a trick! We finally got one of the Hyper-Enthusiasts to come out of hiding, so he can be studied in a controlled environment. Good work slashdot!
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
Ajax doesn't need rails. It flies, both defying the laws of physics and generating a thumping Queen soundtrack in the neighbourhood that makes your car stereo weep with envy.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
Indeed. I'd ask what the Python and Ruby counterparts to, say java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap or java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue are, if I didn't know about the Global Interpreter Lock which quite effectively limits any serious adult use, outside of the sandbox where wild imaginations roam free and little shovels and sand cakes seem to do anything anyone might ever want.
What the hell does that mean?
Shame on Google.
When I write Python I feel like I'm writing COBOL.
If Java were to stop paying the bills and I couldn't get a job doing Ruby, I would rather code C#, TCL or Perl than do Pybol.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
When you wrote that sentence in English did you feel like you were writing COBOL?
Some of us have to write things a little more complicated than 'Hello, World.'
If a giant oil company wanted an abortion, would W's head explode?