I think Java has really become 'the new Cobol' this side of 2020 - helped along significantly by both Oracle's purchase of Sun, and by Google making it a mainstream/relevant UI language (at last!) via Android - i.e. its now past its innovation stage, and has become heavily mainstream and stable (in terms of language features) - hence Gosling jumping ship.
Whatever you think of Java it is currently the No.1 computer language worldwide. See the TIOBE Programming Community Index for August 2010 here: www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Note that C and C++ are still 2nd and 3rd on that index. (Also note the very sharp rise of both Objective C and Google's own GO language). I think Java, C and C++ are going to stay on the podium for a good many years yet. (I recently got back into C++ after 10 years away from it, and was very pleasantly surprised on how useful and modern C++ has been made - on the Bada platform for example. Apparently Samsung spent $100M on Bada, before they made the first WAVE phones, and it certainly shows in their IDE/framework). I think this Oracle legal move spells the end of them doing anything serious with the Java App Store (and the like) - i.e. it looks like they tried to sit on their backsides Java UI-wise and simply muscle a slice of Google's profit stream, but when that hustle didn't work it got handed to the Legal Dept. Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
