News: Java is dead? 9 million devs disagree
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BTW, I recommend reading not only the article,but also the comments (on the original article page). Personally, I really loved Peter Ashford's and Mateo Bengualid's responses to Florian Boesch's comment.
A lot of points in the original article reference java IDEs to mitigate the verbosity of the language. The fact that the only practical way to write java code requires the use of eclipse and it's ilk is one of the language's biggest failings in my opinion.
I don't think the web would be nearly as accessible to develop for if necessitated the use of dreamweaver (or whatever) to be able to build anything.
Lol, no..
10 is the time it takes to configure your develop environment before you even start. Java isnt dead. While this is true, it is also an incredibly unproductive language. There are tons of boilerplate code that needs to be generated.
But it another way, the JVM ecosystem is alive and thriving through varies other dynamic language built to run on JVM. But the language itself is on the decline.
Generally, it's about setting up the project structure, writing your configuration XML, and fetching all the dependencies libraries. Usually, this involves the writing of Maven or Ant XML files, and generating the project from it. Sometimes, the IDE chokes and you have do it all be hand. Eclipse is notorious for having their plugins conflicting with each other. I switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ for that very reason.
A lot of the modern programming languages offers package managers that dramatically improves this process. The only thing that Java has is Maven..and Maven pom files aren't just simple dependency management.
That being said, Java is a bit heavy on the resources. It takes 20 percent more hardware to run a Java product than it does C++. Wish it could be far more performance driven.
Java the language is optional - it is simply the lowest common denominator on the JVM.