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There are only three factors Java is getting used today.

    1. 'Hiring the cheap programmer' factor.
    2. 'The Oracle' factor.
    3. 'The pointy haired boss' factor.
And those are not awesome reasons to stay alive.


Interesting. I'm actually using Java on projects, but via Groovy. Others I know are coming from Ruby in to Clojure. So, "Java" as such isn't the direct factor, but JVM is a common one. Will it be enough to keep it from COBOL-status?


JVM based languages are totally different.

I remember Bjarne Stroustrup telling Java isn't platform independent, Java is the platform. Meaning compiled C++ runs on processors directly, but compiled Java runs on JVM. So JVM becomes analogous to a processor.

So comparing JVM based languages is like comparing languages directly compiled to a processor like a ARM processor. Future of JVM is different than future of Java.

Just like future of C++ is different than future of pentium.




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