Comments on: Java: A Retrospective http://alexiskold.net/2007/10/19/java-a-retrospective/ Thoughts on Tech Startups and Venture Capital Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:18:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: xvoid http://alexiskold.net/2007/10/19/java-a-retrospective/#comment-20247 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:23:08 +0000 http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/java-a-retrospective/#comment-20247 Actually, I’m only now venturing into Java. I think it’s currently one of the best and easiest solutions for creating cross-platform applications (and portability is very important to me, as I use Windows, Linux and Mac OS X regularly). Having worked with C# for quite a while, I know that it’s only supported on Windows, and many apps written in it are NOT portable (even with Mono), because in practice, many of them end up using P/Invoke to call native Windows DLLS! And I think the fact that Java is now opensource (and GPL) also helps increase it’s adoption. So, maybe it’s just me, but I feel that Java adoption is bound to grow in the near future. Statistics show that it’s the most widely used programming language out there…

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]]> By: Adam Keys http://alexiskold.net/2007/10/19/java-a-retrospective/#comment-19205 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:41:11 +0000 http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/java-a-retrospective/#comment-19205 I found the beginning of your article pretty interesting. I’m interested in your take on the decline of Java in the face of web apps and dynamic languages.

As someone who mostly uses Ruby and JavaScript and last used Java five years ago, I think its interesting that you seem to have low regard for JavaScript, which I think is an excellent language.

All that said, I think there’s definitely lessons to learn and emulate from Java! I just have a hard time cutting through the chaff of marketing messages and misplaced enthusiasm by those who’ve never known anything but Java.

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