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2007 Java Predictions
jg21 writes "Java Developer's Journal has published the results of its end-of-year poll of various Internet technology players, from its own internal editors to industry high-ups like the founder of Apress, Gary Cornell, and including too the thoughts of professor Tony Wasserman of Carnegie Mellon West. Participants were asked to foretell what they saw happening in 2007. Among the predictions — Cornell: 'The open-sourcing of Java will have no effect whatsoever on Java's slow decline in favor of dynamic languages (Ruby, Python) and C#'; Wasserman: 'The use of the GPL 2 for open-sourcing Java will inhibit the completion and acceptance of the GPL 3 proposal'; and Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson: 'The stigma of being a Web programmer still using Windows will increase.'"
No one uses Java anymore, it's all flash these days.
For individual web sites and popular software, maybe. However, there are plenty of specialized applications that have taken many years to develop that are written in Java.
I've never been a fan of the language. Performance is terrible, and moving an app from one VM to another often causes serious problems. The cross platform claims have consistently been exaggerated.
There is too much invested already in it just to disappear, and I certainly can't see everything just going to Flash, though that definitely has many applications. Predictions of a long slow decline are spot on.
A decline and death are not the same thing. I keep hearing C is dead. Losing popularity, sure, but it will be around for a very long time.