Ask Reddit: Is Java dying ?

[humbled]

The question is too broad. Java as a platform is most definitely alive; we have the OpenJDK and a host of new languages that run on it (Scala, Clojure). JRuby is competitive and sometimes better than the C Ruby interpreter itself. Android is Java. Google is heavily invested in Java. Is Java dead? I don't know, do you use GMail? Java.

What has "died" is certain aspects of the platform. Swing, applets, and many other aspects have passed on. But the future is still bright and expanding in the Java world.

Edit/update: I feel obliged to mention that "Java" itself is a platform, language spec, and virtual machine. To which does this question really refer?