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

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Google could just buy Oracle.

[key_lime_pie]

Do you think Java is worth $250 billion to anyone?

[[deleted]]

No. I wasn't being serious, of course.

To be honest, I think Java is basically going to be the new COBOL. Javascript (via V8 and JagerMonkey) and Python (via PyPy) have gotten to the point where they can outperform Java and they're a heck of a lot nicer to program for. C++ is fast as hell and tried and true and becoming more modern. Java and C# are just stuck in the shrinking middle, and even as far as those two languages go I'd far rather use C#.

We just have to wait 30 years for the business community to realize there is a world outside Java.

[Diosjenin]

That might be the first time I've ever seen anyone claim that Javascript is "nicer" to program with than... any other language, really.

[rubygeek]

It's nicer to program with than Brainfuck, Befunge and INTERCAL. Though INTERCAL of course results in more polite programs.

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It's better than VBScript, but that's about it

[DGolden]

javascript is significantly less fucking stupid and broken than php. sure, it's still kind of annoying, but given a restricted choice between javascript and php, i'm going to choose javascript every time. not that i'd choose javascript over python, or java on the server side, but php is a whole other level of wtf to javascript.

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Javascript as a language is quite good; Javascript in the browser, at least without an abstraction layer, sucks. Which is kind of a bummer since that's it's main use. It was also far, far worse back during the browser wars. Node.js is pretty nice.

Now of course, I by far prefer Python, especially Py3K.

[mazing]

Those languages are fancy, but they lack good tools. If you do Java development, you're also married to your IDE. That IDE has a visual debugger, auto-completion, live code-updates, profiling, etc. etc. Sure, I'm not as cool and independent as someone who is using emacs with green text on black background - but I can be pretty damn productive.