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Multi-Language VMs

Posted in Tools on Oct 15th, 2007

This is a short followup to my post on Java’s decline. One of the issues brought up in the comments is that Java as a platform potentially has more staying power than Java the programming language. The JVM is a solid foundation for building languages on, so the argument goes, and a new language […]

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Is Java Dying?

Posted in Tools on Oct 9th, 2007

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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