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Re: Roof's broken

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On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 8:15:57 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Java has been #1 or #2 for 13 years.
> 
> It is dominating two very fast growing markets:
> * smartphones (Android)
> * big data (Hadoop)
> 
> The large Java EE applications developed the last 15 years are still
> rather new in enterprise life cycle.
> 
> It is practically guaranteed that Java will be in the top for
> the next 5 years to come. The only question is whether it will
> be as #1 or #2.
> 
> > Due to Oracle's new strategy some companies think twice whether to
> > choose Java for new products.
> 
> As far as I know then Oracle has bot changed strategy.
> 
> There were a bit of speculation after Oracle let go
> of a handful of people well-known in the Java world
> a few months ago.
> 
> The speculation did not sound particular convincing.
> 
> > And Objective C has been overtaken either.
> 
> Apple is actively pushing Swift over Objective-C so
> no surprise in that.
> 
> Arne

Some 10 or 15 years ago Java was new and we were hesitant to write anything with it.  VB.NET was #1.  Java has come a long way since and hopefully is the language of the future.  Learning a new major language is the worst if it requires updating a lot of existing code.

I believe Objective-C is dead which should be a good thing since I never bothered to learn it because I heard it was closed source and you had to pay to use it.  Swift is now a free open source language that can code OSX as well as iOS.

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Re: Roof's broken Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2015-12-09 07:37 +0100
  Re: Roof's broken Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-12-09 20:15 -0500
    Re: Roof's broken Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 05:12 -0800
      Re: Roof's broken Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-12-10 18:42 -0500

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