The Struggle To Keep Java Relevant

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions Oracle's ability to revive interest in Java in the wake of Oracle VP Jeet Kaul's announcement at EclipseCon that he would 'like to see people with piercings doing Java programming.' 'If Kaul is hoping Java will once again attract youthful, cutting-edge developers, as it did when it debuted in 1995, [Kaul] may be in for a long wait,' McAllister writes. 'Java has evolved from a groundbreaking, revolutionary language platform to something closer to a modern-day version of Cobol.' And, as McAllister sees it, 'Nothing screams "get off my lawn" like a language controlled by Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software vendor. The chances that Java can attract the mohawks-and-tattoos set today seem slimmer than ever.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

um google app engine? spring? android? gwt? groovy?

Please it's evolving and even finding new uses.

All those "java is going to die" people are silly and not grounded in reality. Plenty of talented developers see its power and use it.

good coders will follow the money

[ilmdba]

piercings and mohawks somehow make someone 'cutting edge' or a better coder?  i think not.

good developers will follow the jobs.

i'll save you the trip to monster.com, here are some search results from there:

search  results
------  -------
java    5000+
.net    4581
c++     3706
c#      3369
perl    2569
python  1035
ruby    547
cobol   286

- 5000 is apparently the limit for the number of results a query can provide at monster.com (weak) so there are most likely far more that 5000 java jobs in their database
- couldn't figure out how to search for C reliably, but it's probably up over 5000 as well.