https://www.craigpardey.com/tags/scala/ Recent content in Scala on Craig Pardey Hugo en Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.craigpardey.com/post/2010-11-13-life-after-java/ Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.craigpardey.com/post/2010-11-13-life-after-java/ <p>There has been a lot of talk lately that Java is on its way out, mostly fueled by <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2010/10/21/apple-possibly-deprecated-java-community-nice-test-you">Apple deprecatingJava</a>, and by <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/10/apache_to_quit_jcp/">Apache threateningto quit Java</a>.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m not crying Chicken Little just yet, but perhaps it&rsquo;s time to start looking for the Next Big Thing.  There are certainly a lot of contenders out there: Ruby (and Rails), Scala, Groovy (and Grails).  My guess is there&rsquo;ll be a couple of false starts before a clear winner is declared.</p>