If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy

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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