I think the opposite. Firefox will lose users.
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The Future of Firefox
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Once IE 7 is deployed and more sites use IE 7-specific tags and technologies, including one-click deployment that relies on.NET technologies being incorporated into the browser, I think Firefox will slowly lose users.
Also, the next IE version will have tabs and all the modern browser things people are used to, so Firefox will have less of a purpose.
Tack onto this that Microsoft Anti-Spyware will be installed on the majority of machines by the time IE 7 ships, and you have a recipe for declining # of Firefox users.
I'm a big Firefox fan btw and am using it right now.
The article's about Ruby, so all the Ruby fans are reading and commenting and moderating, thus my "well Java's pretty damn good" comment sits at 1 and the reply saying how amazing Ruby is gets modded to 4 or 5.
I'll say it again: couple a modern OO language with lots of native libraries all documented clearly with a decent IDE (method completion, auto-syntax checking) and I can solve just about any problem in software in a relatively short amount of time.
Considering there's more lines of Java code in existance than any other language in the entire world, and the fact that many many job postings are for J2EE developers, I think I'll stick with that for now rather than learn another tool.
Sometimes when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and that's the case with RoR. Not dissing it, I'm sure it's nice, but don't discount everything else just because you're into some new exciting thing.
Don't get me wrong. I love java and hibernate and all of the powerful ideas it introduces and brings to the table, but RoR just makes things so easy and fast.
On a serious note, I honestly doubt the typical programmer can go from Idea to Working Code in Ruby any faster than you can do the same thing in Java. If you can personally, then I'd suspect you just aren't very good at Java.
Not a personal attack, but there's just so many useful Java libraries that it's a snap to get things done esp. when using a nice IDE.
If you Google and tinker with files for an hour or two you may be able to get it to work.
For the rest of us who just want to click and play you see
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Once IE 7 is deployed and more sites use IE 7-specific tags and technologies, including one-click deployment that relies on .NET technologies being incorporated into the browser, I think Firefox will slowly lose users.
Also, the next IE version will have tabs and all the modern browser things people are used to, so Firefox will have less of a purpose.
Tack onto this that Microsoft Anti-Spyware will be installed on the majority of machines by the time IE 7 ships, and you have a recipe for declining # of Firefox users.
I'm a big Firefox fan btw and am using it right now.
The article's about Ruby, so all the Ruby fans are reading and commenting and moderating, thus my "well Java's pretty damn good" comment sits at 1 and the reply saying how amazing Ruby is gets modded to 4 or 5.
I'll say it again: couple a modern OO language with lots of native libraries all documented clearly with a decent IDE (method completion, auto-syntax checking) and I can solve just about any problem in software in a relatively short amount of time.
Considering there's more lines of Java code in existance than any other language in the entire world, and the fact that many many job postings are for J2EE developers, I think I'll stick with that for now rather than learn another tool.
Sometimes when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and that's the case with RoR. Not dissing it, I'm sure it's nice, but don't discount everything else just because you're into some new exciting thing.
On a serious note, I honestly doubt the typical programmer can go from Idea to Working Code in Ruby any faster than you can do the same thing in Java. If you can personally, then I'd suspect you just aren't very good at Java.
Not a personal attack, but there's just so many useful Java libraries that it's a snap to get things done esp. when using a nice IDE.
If you Google and tinker with files for an hour or two you may be able to get it to work.
For the rest of us who just want to click and play you see
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