You would be right if Scala is the only new thing. I know plenty Java people interested in Hadoop, gradle, vaddin, bootstrap, angular, mobile. Before we can inject knowledge directly to our brain, we have to pick and choose what we want to learn.
I agree with Rakesh. Personally I like Scala and wrote a couple programs but Java does not bother me. None of my colleagues have any interest in Scala. They are not lazy or stupid, in contrary they are pretty smart and they are allocating their resources in learning technologies that can help them the most. By the way, you do realize that saying "Java programmers are not actually that interested in learning new things" does not help you to push your agenda. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 22:39 +0000, Rakesh wrote: > [...] > > By the same token,Java 6 is 'good enough'. There's hardly any project > > that could not be done in Java 6(assuming competent developers). > [...] > > Alternatively it could be that the majority of Java programmers are not > actually that interested in learning new things, they do their job for > money with the tools they have. So when management are not interested > in managed change but in stable status quo because they are afraid of > disruption, programmers fall into the trap of failing to learn and > develop. > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
