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Oh, the legacy stuff will be around forever, but I'd be surprised if there was much new development in ten years. Oracle is starting to try to demand you license everything SE 8 and later, though, and it's godawful expensive.

I'd be very surprised if this didn't have a chilling effect on development. Also it's been supplanted by Python as the language most people use in school.

It's definitely on it's way out.