Java losing steam to newer languages?
Java has played a very long innings and is one of the oldest programming languages but now it seems to be losing out steam to new age languages such as AJAX, PHP for creation of rich internet applications and have found favor with the developers
They feel Java has let them down and the promises made were never fulfilled since the compatibility an issue were never handled efficiently and with various versions and downloads being rolled out it just made the matter more complex. Even in the mobile arena it could not prove its worth and the java mobile edition could never gain ground in the arena of mobile applications. All this has led to .Net from the stables of its old rival, Microsoft to come up and threaten its position but hold on Java is not moving towards its grave since it still delivers strong performance for internally developed enterprise applications but this not means that it is still holding on to its numero uno position. Is Sun listening?
December 28th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
The fact that you state that AJAX is a new age language just illustrates how little you know. You can develop AJAX/RIA solutions just dandy using Java plus other frameworks/libraries (e.g. Flex, Laszlo, GWT, Dojo, etc). Do you actually get paid for this drivel?
March 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
The author of this article, ‘gautam’ does not have a clue what he is talking about. Java, “one of the oldest programming languages”? What a laugh!
If this were his only misunderstanding that would be bad enough. But there is more: AJAX is not a language at all! It is a _collection_ of related technologies, only one of them, Javascript, is even a language at all.
The persistent bad grammar of this article does not win the author any credibility, either.