Google is a clear proponent of Java and is contributing to Java community quite a lot – from Joshua Bloch (Java features) to library authors like Bob Lee (Guice), Bruce Johnson (GWT) and several others.

With improvements to JVM and script languages we’re can also recognize Java as the core language for developing libraries used by more agile script languages.

On the mobile client, Java programming language is used for Android which is getting its fair amount of limelight.

In a nutshell, with Google alive and kicking Java (and Java software developers) has nothing to be afraid of. :-)

Cheers!
Shonzilla

I do not enjoy getting filled with ire; well, ok, maybe a little (don’t we all). In the case of this “article”, Gillmor forces it upon the reader. I have concluded it is humanly impossible to read his meanderings without experience “ire”.

It is in the spirit of altruism that we, the public, speak out and express our opinion, and, dare I say, DISAGREE with someone’s take on things. You see, it is not selfish motives that drive my comments, it is a heroic attempt to protect the public from Gillmor’s insanity. You are welcome.

Shall we avoid speaking passionately about subjects that matter to us lest we risk bruising one’s delicate ego? Fuck no! If you speak brashly and without caution, be prepared for the response.

I’m geussing that your name is actually Larry and you just haven’t learned to spell it yet.

Excuse me? Yes. I was handed a phone. Free.

I’m reading this after opening my Android phone. It’s not the old G1. It’s not got a keyboard. It’s virtual keyboard made sense and was accurate. I was prompted to sync to my Google account when I signed in for the first time. Clever. Useful. Stable. I was able to browse to the comment website for the I/O event on both 3g and WiFi with ease.

My iPhone sitting next to it as I documented some of this made me wonder what I’ve been carrying around since late 2008. At lunch, another iPhone user that develops for Android said he estimated I’d be using my iPhone first as primary and then later come back to play with the HTC.

The OTA upgrade to 1.5 and reboot just “worked”. I was able to get into the Market easily. Maps worked far better than I expected.

What really brought it home was how well Gmail worked. Previews. All of it.

I’m tapping in my thoughts in response to this article from an HP netbook. I’m using Windows XP and Firefox but today I took the Chrome plunge and will be coming back to review it more. As the lunch group broke up to head to more sessions, his parting shot was “you just don’t know you’re going to give up the iPhone yet”.

One of the things I loathe is the spawning of Flash or a Java applet and watching my machine crawl — and today I get to imagine a world where neither of these clunkers are mandated for the future of what I consider to be Web access interfaces. Neither of these show up on iPhone today. If it comes to a wait period, if it comes to a choice in development platforms, I can only see Google generating greater returns for this investment today.

My next plan is to get Android apps running on my Ubuntu laptop once I get back to dig into that. While I am comfortable on various platforms, my Apple world has been questioned today but not as much as my Flash and Java world.

So many things will have to change as this plays out but it’s the only progress that makes sense. Flash and Java are bridges to expectations and not reflections of the path for progress itself.

But the real reason to tweet the article are the comments. Hoots, jeers, catcalls, some faint praise, and some insight. What fun!

Cheers.

I am sincerely intrigued by what motivates Arrington to provide Gillmor a platform here on TC. It dilutes the quality of the articles and is an insult to the much more competent staff writers TC has.

Gillmor tries to dazzle with bullsh*t intermingled with acronyms and industry terms that he does not comprehend. I am now convinced that he penned this wonderfully technical scene from CSI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

Steve is giving Google credit for HTML5 which will have a future on Android and in Google’s own services. This is supposedly brilliant for Google (even though the companies who will benefit from HTML5 are legion — just not Microsoft — and Google’s by no means responsible for it — thousands have contributed to the long-in-the-coming HTML5… Android has it because of WebKit which is maintained by Apple — in fact, one could say Apple benefits more than Google from HTML5 even though they don’t play in the web services business very much, etc…) Because HTML5 and Cupcake are so brilliant, Google kicks ass and gives out free phones (not because they have a bunch of unsold boxes sitting around approaching the value of zero, but because happy developers is more profitable than paid services and expensive devices so you might as well give it away).

I say HTML5 still has a long row to hoe. And many will benefit if it does achieve critical mass. Apple and Google’s web standards goals are perfectly aligned, and they are working well to make it happen, with all of their strategies, services, products applying pressure. (Conversely, I see Mozilla flagging and perhaps losing despite their own contributions to the web’s advancement.) But there is still plenty of inertia and lack of creativity in a broad market still dominated by Microsoft and those uninspired by taking the web to the next level.

Apple and Google definitely have the advantage of having the best toys, services, APIs, and RDF to spread around and bribe people. That used to be Microsoft.