Stephen O'Grady responds to a post by Tim Bray wrote about the future of Java and the relationship the JVM should have with dynamic languages such as Python and Ruby.
One point that I think is important that Stephen made was the difference between a corporate development and the hacker at home, just looking to put something together. The difference is that most people not at work will not be using Java, whether because of the lack of interest or the lack of available tools.
But I'm just as interested in what happens outside the firewall - the individual developers building blogs and wikis and forums and feed readers and a host of other 'non-enterprise' apps on borrowed or hosted infrastructure. And that, IMO, is an area where Java's anything but ubiquitous.Posted by Josh at February 10, 2006 09:59 PM