If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy
Java may not be dying, but it does take off early on Fridays for golf.<p>Java is not dying the same way Cobol was not dying 10 years ago.  It has a lot of legs left but nobody is 'hoping' to use it, they are told to do so.<p>Java is and always has been almost completely a corporate tool. Again, like Cobol, so the 'cool kids' are not going to give it much love.  It's too slow to execute to compete with C++, its too slow to write to compete with Groovy or Scala.  And all the cool kids pick an extreme and vote that way.<p>Java is not 'dead', but thought leaders aren't using it right now.  The people who inherited the decision of thought leaders of 15 years ago are using it, so the writing is on the wall, its just going to take a while to be read.