as a huge fan of Babylon5 myself, I must commend the author on this analogy. For me, this makes perfect sense.<p>Also, I just decided, that it's probably time for a rewatch - it has been two years now since I've last seen the series.
What would it take to get the enterprise to look at alternatives to Java (programming language and/or platform)? If COBOL is any indication, then Java software in the enterprise will continue to be developed for the remainder of our lives.<p>So, unless you find working with the COBOL of our times enthralling, I guess now is as good a time as any to jump ship on Java. Not that most HN readers haven't done that already.
Yea it is time to rewatch babylon 5 .<p>Java is not a great language but scalability, cross platform and corporate support made it what it is today, if the company behind Java leaves it alone, in time less and less people will choose it in long term mission critical deployments, then it will die.<p>Or maybe another language will rise after the death of java which can be better in the long term.<p>I am both happy and sad that java is dying.