Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Javascript replacing Java? Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 23:14:56 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <75947fa8-5d0c-415c-b2f1-78ccd38293a3@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36592 On 5/3/2017 5:52 PM, Richard Maher wrote: > On 03-May-17 10:51 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> But I don't see Java being replaced everywhere. Students should >> learn a number of languages. And I am very confident that the >> demand for a static typed compiled OO language will remain. And >> Java is still one obvious choice for that (most viable alternative >> is probably C#). And then there is the need for different >> types of languages. > > Are you up to date with ES6? I am not a JS person, but I do read about things. I think ES6 is a great improvement for JS. But I do not see it as making JS like Java or C#. Arne