Episode 33 – Java is a Dead End from Stockholm’s Jfokus Conference
February 16th, 2011
Mike Gualtieri, an Analyst, wrote an article for Forrester (i.e. the people your boss listens to instead of you) about how Java has outlived it's usefulness as a business language. Troll much?
It's no surprise it caught fire becoming Forrester's widest read and commented article. Mike recently did a followup presentation justifying his claims.
Before you go ditching all your investments in Java, have a listen to the cast. We gathered a panel of on-the-ground industry experts from the Jfokus 2011 conference in Stockholm Sweden (i.e. guys who work for a living) which include:
- Neal Ford - Closure Proponent
- Nick Sieger - JRuby Core Team
- Bruno Souza - The "Java Man"
- Kirk Pepperdine - Java Performance Tuning Expert
Listen here:
Enjoy!
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Great Podcast. Having Neal Ford, Souza, Sieger and Kirk was magic. It’s rare to have all these wiz on the same podcast. And I agree with many points.
Java ain’t dead and is far from being dead. I’m a JVM agnostic, since I code with java, groovy, scala, and recently jruby. And the platform will always exist, and since new colege graduate are mostly frluent in Java, the langage will still exist. With the number of java code to maintain out ther it’s hard to get rid of alangage like java.
great podcast guys!!! agree with all the points thats been made. i think is only a eventuality that the enterprise will be a much more vibrant environment then just java. a important question tho is how to manage this new complexity so we can harness the power of these languages to be productive…
Forrester? Gotta get me a piece of that report!
Wow, the dude is a moron. He’s trying to solve architectural, management issues with a language. Who cares what language you use.
Who was the noob clicking keys in the foreground? (Listen ~40 min into audio track #1.)