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Oracle May Have Stopped Funding and Developing Java EE (arstechnica.com)
While anticipating new features in Java 9, developers also have other concerns, according to an anonymous Slashdot reader:
ArsTechnica is reporting that Oracle has quietly pulled funding and development efforts away from Java EE, the server-side Java technology that is part of hundreds of thousands of Internet and business applications. Java EE even plays an integral role for many apps that aren't otherwise based on Java, and customers and partners have invested time and code. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened, but the implications are huge for Java as a platform.
"It's a dangerous game they're playing..." says one member of the Java Community Process Executive Committee. "It's amazing -- there's a company here that's making us miss Sun." Oracle's former Java evangelist even left the company in March and became a spokesman for the "Java EE Guardians," who have now created an online petition asking Oracle to "clarify" its intent and resume development or "transfer ownership of Java EE 8".
"It's a dangerous game they're playing..." says one member of the Java Community Process Executive Committee. "It's amazing -- there's a company here that's making us miss Sun." Oracle's former Java evangelist even left the company in March and became a spokesman for the "Java EE Guardians," who have now created an online petition asking Oracle to "clarify" its intent and resume development or "transfer ownership of Java EE 8".
Says the guy who doesn't know the difference between your and you're. Oracle are corporate assholes and they're pushing people away from Java with their lawsuits.
I think what we'll start seeing within the banking and finance fields is an industry-wide movement to Rust. Rust is perfect for these kinds of applications: it's super safe and it is super reliable and it is super fast. It's everything that the banking and finance fields need, plus it's futuristic. That's exactly why Rust is the future, in fact: because it defines what the future is, today. The beauty of Rust is that with one language it makes so many other languages irrelevant. If you're using Rust you don't need C++, you don't need Java, you don't need Perl, you don't need Ruby, and you don't need JavaScript. Rust is a full-stack language that you can use to write the OS as well as the libraries as well as the applications as well as the middleware! There is no need for different languages when Rust can do it all.