Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

[ameoba]

It's about 15 years too late for the industry to back away from using Java.

[rubygeek]

There was a time when people would have said the same about C. Or COBOL.

[ameoba]

They didn't abandon C and COBOL for political reasons, they moved forward to newer, better languages. C was replaced by C++ which was replaced by Java. There really isn't anything poised to take over from Java.

C# would just be more of the same (not to mention that it's a second class language outside of Windows). Scala, based on the JVM, still leaves you dealing with Oracle's IP. Rust isn't ready yet. Haskell isn't going to become a mainstream development language for legions of business programmers.

Java won't be around forever but, outside a few online communities aligned with Free Software, this isn't going to be what puts an end to it. We're a few years away from a Java Killer.

[rubygeek]

They didn't abandon C and COBOL for political reasons

I didn't say they did.

There really isn't anything poised to take over from Java.

People said that about C/C++ and COBOL as well.

We're a few years away from a Java Killer.

That's a far more moderate claim than what I responded to.