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I am a Java Developer.

I used to program in Turbo Pascal, then a bit of Visual Basic, ASP, and then now, Java.

Java is still alive, yes, but I cannot deny the fact that one day it will die. Remember that Sun has laid of 6,000 workers, and unless IBM buys them out, I will err on the side of anticipating Java will eventually die.

So will the universe; saying Java will eventually die really isn't much of a stretch.

That aside, it sure sounds like the article writer is saying Java is a good language, and I just don't see it the same way.

Java has always been a good-enough language. This has been its strength over time but is now turning out to be its demise. Evolution has stopped and the programming model has more or less played out its role, the upcoming concurrency issue will be the final stroke. The problem is, we do not have an alternative (and no, Scala ain't it).

right. And that's been said for over a decade now.
Those of us who've been using Java for a long time know that you can almost set the clock to the "Java is dead" and "Java will die unless it is changed to have XXXX" messages, they arrive at least once a week and have since before the first production release hit the street.

When Java came out I was programming Smalltalk full-time. We sort of looked at it (Java) and chuckled and wondered what the point was. Some of us learned Java anyway (heck, I still have my JavaOS book), but we're still a bit bewildered as to what exactly happened.

If Java is dead so it is C++ and PHP and Ruby and Python and thousand of OpenSource languages. This people are Trolls and they like to make FUD. Java is here to stay as any OpenSource Language, You Trolls idiots does not understand that?.

If you are worry about concurrency so use a language built for it as Haskell or Erlang. Java is for resolve Business server side problems. You want High performance concurrency use Erlang or Haskell, You want High performance graphics use C or C++, you want to create quickly a web application use Python or Ruby or PHP, You want to script your Unix use Perl.