Programming Languages to watch in 2011

Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by khill on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:38PM (#2001245)

Why would I choose any language which runs on the JVM now that Oracle is flexing its muscles? As much as I like Clojure, Scala and Groovy, I'm starting to steer clear of anything related to Oracle's intellectual properties.

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Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by brlewis on Monday December 13, 2010 @01:08PM (#2001377)

I'm not concerned. IBM has an independent implementation, so copyright is not an issue. Oracle is not about to start a patent war with IBM, so patents are actually less of an issue than they usually are with software. The trademark issue is trivial. I'm not concerned about Oracle's IP.

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Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by ovi256 on Monday December 13, 2010 @02:07PM (#2001585)

"I'm not concerned about Oracle's IP." - famous last words.

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Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by junkbit on Monday December 13, 2010 @02:39PM (#2001697)

Oracle owns the trademark to JavaScript now too. We are going to have to call it ECMAScript to be safe.

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Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by brlewis on Monday December 13, 2010 @02:13PM (#2001604)

:-) highly context-dependent

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Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by va_coder on Monday December 13, 2010 @01:45PM (#2001505)

AFAIK server-side JVM solutions are ok, but if you have dreams of shipping an appliance like solution to customers you may well have problems with Oracle.

Although, steering clear of Oracle-anything is a top priority of mine as well.

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