Poll Result: Developers Are More Pessimistic about Java#039;s Future

If the voting in last week#039;s java.net poll are indicative of what the broader Java developer community is thinking (the poll, of course, is not scientific), then the events of 2010 didn#039;t ally much of the concern developers have regarding Java#039;s future. A total of 339 votes were cast, and 5 comments, expressing a variety of views, were posted. Here#039;s the exact poll question and results: Are you more optimistic today about Java#039;s future than you were a year ago? 23% (77 votes) - Yes 14% (47 votes) - Somewhat, at least there#039;s less uncertainty now 23% (79 votes) - Not really, I still have concerns 35% (120 votes) - To the contrary, I#039;m more pessimistic now 4% (14 votes) - I don#039;t know 1% (2 votes) - Other With more than a third of the voters saying they#039;re more pessimistic than they were a year ago, and almost a quarter saying they still have concerns, a clear majority is expressing dissatisfaction with the events and/or direction they#039;re seeing. We could observe that 37% of the voters stated that they are at least somewhat more optimistic than a year ago, while only 35% are more pessimistic. But that large Not really, I still have concerns group looms ominously, in my view. Consider where we were a year ago: silence about the future was legally imposed on both Sun and Oracle, due to the laws of corporate mergers. Sun had laid off many people, and many more were leaving ahead of the...

Date: January, 05 2011
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2011/01/05/poll-result-developers-are-more-pessimis

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