Comments on Nirav's Contemplations: Future of a Java programmer

Learning multiple languages can help any programme...

2010-05-04T19:47:20.420-04:00

Learning multiple languages can help any programmer view new problems from multiple perspectives. "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" still holds true. A big tool box with many languages will never be a bad thing

I think that any developer that finds programming ...

2010-05-04T14:55:13.106-04:00

I think that any developer that finds programming language that he/she likes in first try in one lucky bastard. Or maybe not. If you know only one language, you are not open to try new and exciting things that world is offering.

In my 20 years of experience, I tried 3-4 languages before I settled with Java. I still know how to work with most of them. And I am still learning new ones, mostly ones that derived from Java (Clojure, Scala). But as backend and frontend developer, I think SQL and JavaScript/CSS count as languages, too.

Hildeberto, You seem to imply that being good wit...

2010-05-04T09:33:58.236-04:00

Hildeberto,
You seem to imply that being good with tools and languages worsens your problem solving.

However I get it where you are coming from, I used to think same why would I want new programming language anyway. Given that this is how it worked in real life all of us would have been programming in assembly lang for different machine architectures but reality is far from it.

Economics of our industry are not driven by emotions. Why do you use framework Y? because Y is productive, this applies to programming languages as well.

I'm never comfortable with any kind of future ...

2010-05-04T03:58:19.581-04:00

I'm never comfortable with any kind of future prediction. People have said so many things and the dynamics of the internet is so fast. Better to be good in solving problems than in tools and languages.

Polyglot is definitely my future. I've been lo...

2010-05-03T20:03:38.806-04:00

Polyglot is definitely my future. I've been looking forward to this day for the last 4 years or so. It makes a lot of sense to use the most appropriate language for each layer/component. I am currently enjoying Groovy but hope to dabble in Clojure and/or Scala soon. I have to agree with you that Java is not going away anytime soon. Like it or not, it's the Cobol of our generation...