Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Travers Naran Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: [Semi-OT] Unplanned Obsolescence (was Re: JavaBeans) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:50:06 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <4e2aefdd$0$307$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="kMrDfOT8a/PcgtJEHFie2w"; logging-data="5473"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+RWYpeOMC7l3Y9PmmGXDgL" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:UmVkHy/N9gInzh+IIpT24l9j/A4= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6466 On 23/07/2011 9:12 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: > Arne Vajhøj writes: >> If you want this type of stuff then VB6 -> C# win forms -> C# WPF >> has simply been the typical choices. > > But then: > > »The fear of .NET developers is that Microsoft's Windows > team now regards not only Silverlight but also .NET as a > legacy technology.« > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/06/windows_tablets_without_silverlight_dot_net/ I am seeing similar discussions about "native apps" for smartphones. There are wide-ranging discussions on the interwebs if HTML5 and the new Javascript (aka ECMAscript) will make other platforms redundant. I am skeptical, but one should learn HTML5/Javascript as a matter of course. :-) I still think our traditional languages will dominate the server end. Node.js notwithstanding.