Hi, I'm not sure if this is common in other industries but at any one time we have people developing software commercially:
1. Writing COBOL against mainframes setup in the 70/80's. 2. Writing and maintaining EJB 2.x apps. 3. Various versions of the JVM 4. The latest JVM languages My point is a new way of working becomes possible in 2006. It may not actually reach the average development workshop (if at all) for many, many years. My last project used Java 5, JSPs and MySQL. A bit long in the tooth you could argue (and I did!). My new project is the more cutting edge - Java 6(!), MongoDB and the JVM layer - Java is ok but Groovy is preferred (we use Grails). I am really impressed by Groovy. It really allows you to take your time migrating to its syntax, reducing the initial load and complexity. Ruby and Scala feel like to big a jump. I think polyglot programming will only get bigger and more popular, especially as the tooling (IDEs and cross compilers) become better. Rakesh On 21 January 2012 13:31, Moandji Ezana <mwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > In 2006, when Neal Ford coined or popularised the term polyglot programming, > it seemed to gain some popularity. > > However, in the past few years, the trend seems to have gone towards using > as few languages as possible. > > In Java you could use GWT or Android on the client and Hibernate on the > server and not see either JavaScript or SQL. > > With Node.js, JavaScript becomes the common language. Fantom and Clojure > (via ClojureScript) can also compile to JavaScript. > > Was polyglottism ever a good way to build an application? Is this just a > pendulum swing or rather the result of more powerful tools? > > Moandji > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@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.
