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What's up with Java and Sun?

What's up with Java and Sun? The community surrounding them has developed some of my favorite tools and software. The Java platform still looked like it was promised, Groovy and Grails anyway. Why does all of this seem to be on the dodo path lately?

(Yes, I know their stock price is falling badly.) Is it just economics? Or did the lack of cohesion (i.e., not settling the structure) among the community finally lead to its demise?

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I do not know what you are talking about. However you look at it, Java is clearly still a very popular language.

One dimension is the O'Reilly State of Computer Book Market . This publisher reports book sales and breaks them down by topic, language, etc. The popularity of books is also a good indicator of the popularity of a language as any.



According to a report published in March 2008, Java still remains the main programming language in 2007 in terms of O'Reilly book sales, although Java books have lost some of their market share in Javascript books since 2006.

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Java is this generation's COBOL - it certainly has competition, but its far from dead.



Come back and ask the same question in 10 years.

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A quick glance reveals that Java is the third most popular topic after C # and .Net. This year JavaOne expects 10 thousand visitors.

Java is not the dominant language for web development like Sun was probably hoping for, but ... well, I want my products to be so dead!

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Sadly, Sun does not perform well, but even if Sun dies, Java will simply continue as an open source project.

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One interesting poll . So it looks like Java devices are doing just fine.

However, with all the statistics, I'm always reminded of the quote:

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics."

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Sun has had problems for years.

I gave up Java in 1997 and haven't looked back since. This is great in concept, but I had a problem with proprietary implementations. Of course, I ended up doing the same with Microsoft technology, but it works for me.

Every few years I look at Java again as a Microsoft alternative from a career standpoint ... but I suppose you can't go back.

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