Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation

Kurofuneparry writes "Apple has announced that Java is deprecated as of the most recent update to OS X. This shot across the bow is getting some responses. To Jobs' claim that 'Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms,' James Gosling is quoted as saying that 'simply isn't true.' Much talk of a coming turf war is to be had. This certainly can't be unrelated to statements from Jobs recently covered on this website and is sure to make waves. Apple has enjoyed significant success recently accompanied by a widespread sense that they can do no wrong in business or design. However, is deprecating Java a mistake? It doesn't take much insight to connect the dots and see that Apple has starting marking friends and enemies relative to the increasingly heated fight for mobile and other platforms."

Comments

Objective-C is deprecated

[Anonymous Coward]

But people won't get tired of pointing out how superior it is compared to C++.

Re:Cost to support benefit

[fishexe]

You can't look at sticker price in a vacuum, and say "Mac > Windows PC, therefore robbery."

It's a free country. I can, and I will, say whatever I want, sir! But not in a vacuum, you're right about that part. My body would explode gruesomely, like in Total Recall.