-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/5/10 01:04 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > Oh yeah, the worlds almost-tied-with-the-#1 language is nearing end > of life and merely hanging in there. > > What a load of bollocks. > > For the web my personal opinion is that HTML5 is clearly going to > win that fight. But JavaFX isn't just applets. In fact it's mostly > not applets. +1 BTW, we have to talk about different things, targets and market endorsement. HTML5 might win in the smartphone stuff for end users - mainly because Apple might be successful in killing Flash - where JavaFX is out of the competition unless Oracle announce endorsements *soon*; on the other hands, I frankly don't believe HTML 5 will be able to scale for more complex applications, where Flash and JavaFX are superior. And don't forget that HTML5 is still a *draft*, that is, it's even beyond JavaFX status from the technical point of view.
I agree with the thing said a few days ago, that Oracle should "free" the JavaFX language from the JavaFX runtime. I believe that Google - who's known for blocking JavaFX on Android - won't have any objection in having JavaFX-the-language on its gear, binding to the Android runtime. @Vince: perhaps C is #1, but it's a very different context. I don't see people developing back end or desktop applications in plain C, so I presume it's for more industrial segments such as real time controllers and such. I find completely normal that Java is slowly declining, since it's the mainstream. The point is that with the current rate of decline, nobody else is going to discuss its rank in the short and medium range (of course, I expect that the Next Big Language won't evolve in a linear fashion, but it's still nothing for the short and medium range). - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvhW2AACgkQeDweFqgUGxebawCfYSdLRuXqIQg0rEa71bmjfihN HdYAnA302f05Z8kZTto9s1zXpb7hJO/0 =aDPj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
