I wrote last month about the decline of the Java programming language in a post called Stop the Insanity. The gist of the post is that the Java language has stagnated and this stagnation will eventually lead to a decline in popularity. I felt that this was a fairly uncontroversial idea; programming languages follow cycles […]

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Russell Beattie makes a pretty good argument that Java needs an overhaul. For the most part, I can’t argue with what he is saying. The Java language needs to come to grips with the changing ways that people write software and provide a more productive platform on which to build. This isn’t something that can […]

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With the advent of multi-core CPUs concurrency is becoming more important, but is traditional threading the way to go? The problem is that traditional threading is very difficult to get right. I am sure that are some cowboys out there who will respond to that last sentence by saying that “real programmers” don’t have a […]

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