Summary (Not in any particular order):
Get rid of AWT (Gosling)
Operator over loading (good (Gosling) and bad (Hamilton))
Simplicity, Yes
Participate in the JCP
Tell your vendors to improve their Java support
Netbeans
class loaders hard
Schedule Builder yeah what ever
US mobile infrastructure sucks
Fewer wireless providers could be good
AJAX use Java Server faces
Uh Time for Beer
My commentary:
Ok, this was the first time [...]
Tags: fireside-chat · GrahamHamilton · jamesGosling · Java · javaone · review
I thought I would try out Google Trends and compare popular programming languages. It appears that Java is still the big dog. Ruby came out of nowhere according to Google Trends. Click on the image to get a larger version.
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Google Trends
Originally uploaded by TomC
Tags: .NET · Google-Trends · Java · perl · ruby
Jon Udell had a really interesting post detailing the number of Virtual Machines that reside on his various computers. I agree it would nice to see Sun increase its support for development of other languages based on the Java VM. I attended JavaOne in 2004 and there was a session on Groovy. [...]