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  Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-12-09 00:54 -0800
    Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-09 19:53 -0500

#26797 — Re: Teaching Java, teaching what?

On 8 Dec 2013 16:00:00 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>  But then, I hear everywhere: »Java on the Desktop is dead.«.

What has replaced it?

All the excitement right now is apps for cellphones.  Sales of desktop
computers is dropping and of portables is rising.
 

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On 12/9/2013 3:54 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On 8 Dec 2013 16:00:00 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote,
> quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>>   But then, I hear everywhere: »Java on the Desktop is dead.«.
>
> What has replaced it?

Java was never a major player for desktop apps.

Windows GUI apps are mostly old C++ MFC, old C# Win Forms,
new C# WPF and a bit of the new WinRT stuff.

*nix is still mostly C and C++ with various KDE and Gnome libs.

> All the excitement right now is apps for cellphones.  Sales of desktop
> computers is dropping and of portables is rising.

Sales of PC's has dropped some. But the PC is not headed for
extinction.

Arne

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