If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy

Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by chatman on Thursday October 10, 2013 @12:31AM (#6525648)

With Hadoop, Lucene, Solr, etc. written in Java, there is no doubt that Java is here to stay. None of these libraries (or many others) have competing implementations written in other languages.

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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by alpatters on Thursday October 10, 2013 @07:01AM (#6526752)

"None of these libraries (or many others) have competing implementations written in other languages."

Except the ones they were written to copy. Each example you give is an open-sourced clone of an pre-existing version implemented in a different language.

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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by sfjailbird on Thursday October 10, 2013 @07:58AM (#6526928)

That's not true at all, Lucene is a Java project from the beginning, and has since been copied to virtually every other environment because it is such a kick-ass indexing engine.

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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by alpatters on Thursday October 10, 2013 @08:43AM (#6527204)

So in no way did they copy Google's which is implemented in C++ ?

Though I agree with OP - these projects and Java are here to stay for the foreseeable future.

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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by chatman on Thursday October 10, 2013 @10:02AM (#6527723)

No, they didn't copy any of Google's implementation. They simply implemented efficiently the TF-IDF based document retrieval model.

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