By bloid
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Published: Jul 01 2009 / 03:34
If you follow the Java blogs and tweets in the last couple of years, you've heard the argument that the Java vitual machine is where the value of the Java platform is, and Java the language is mrely one language among many languages that allows programmers to write frameworks, libraries, and applications for the JVM.
And according to the stories, the race, of the alternative JVM languages—including Groovy, Scala, JRuby, Jython, Clojure, and others—to become the Java.next is on, and Scala is winning it, if the Java Posse is to be believed.
Comments
vyadh replied ago:
Of course not. However, today the JVM is the most mature and performant, but Java the language is really showing its age.
MattRussell replied ago:
"the alternative JVM languages—including Groovy, Scala, JRuby, Jython, Clojure, and others... After looking at all the alternative languages I mentioned above, my sense is that Java is still the undisputed easy-to-grok, easy-to-write, easy-to-read, and easy-to-maintain language among them all."
Certainly an unusual view to hold in the blogosphere these days.
serps replied ago:
Yeah. I think a more correct term would be the "minimum acceptable standard".
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