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Dynamic Java

Tim Bray helped put together a summit at Sun, dealing with how developers using dynamic languages such as Jython, Groovy or anything else can still be a part of the Java ecosystem.

Java has a PR problem; while Microsoft marketed the .NET stuff as multi-language from day one, the fact that Java is a three-legged stool (language, JVM, libraries) kind of gets lost under the enveloping carpet of the one-word name “Java”. Partly that’s Sun’s fault; in the early days, the evangelists generally left the impression that anyone writing code in a language other than Java was a second-class citizen. Which is silly; Java’s a good language but I often like to do things in Perl and Python, and so do lots of other developers.

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And I confidently predict that as time goes by, more and more of the code written in the Java ecosystem won’t be in Java. This is a good thing.