This is like PG's post on his blog, "Microsoft is dead". Don't declare stuff dead so soon. I still remember Byte Magazine declaring "Object-Oriented Programming is Dead", and within a month, "Unix is Dead". Both deaths were greatly exaggerated.
Re: Java, it sounds like the excitement has died, but neither Microsoft nor Java are anywhere near dead. In fact, what has really died in the computing world, besides coding in machine code/assembly language, punch cards/paper tape, and teletypes? And aren't we thankful for that? It seems like every other computer interaction idiom is alive and well.
Some things don't stay dead forever, either. Dynamic languages could've easily been declared dead 13 years ago, without exaggerating, but they've been making a resurgence recently.
Re: Java, it sounds like the excitement has died, but neither Microsoft nor Java are anywhere near dead. In fact, what has really died in the computing world, besides coding in machine code/assembly language, punch cards/paper tape, and teletypes? And aren't we thankful for that? It seems like every other computer interaction idiom is alive and well.
Some things don't stay dead forever, either. Dynamic languages could've easily been declared dead 13 years ago, without exaggerating, but they've been making a resurgence recently.