Google trends proves: Java is doomed

May 11, 2006 by Stephan Schmidt

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Google trends is a nice idea, and I had to apply it adhoc to Java, Ruby, Python and C#. Interesting results, I can see a decline in Java! We’re doomed :-)

And the Rails evangelists jump in and present this. Probably people would search for that or even that because Rails mostly doesn’t find RoR though. All others ignore the quabble and use Jetty or Grails.

For fun try this.

Update: Searching for Web 2.0 creates a nice graph and close to my heart: wiki.

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Tom

May 11th, 2006

How about these alternatives:

Ruby on Rails, JSF

Ruby on Rails, Struts

Ruby on Rails, Java Struts

java programming, ruby programming, python programming, c# programming

stephan

May 11th, 2006

I suspect when everyone already does struts and JSF, noone will search for them on Google :-)

Tom

May 12th, 2006

A good point. I think that holds for Struts, but not so much for JSF. For instance, JSF is still rising (evidence for its newness), but it’s not rising as fast as RoR.

Side note, I haven’t done more than 15 minutes with RoR, and I haven’t done JSF at all. So I’m not very affiliated with either.

Oh, and thanks for cleaning up my links.

Tom

May 12th, 2006

Oh, and the C# part of my link still needs fixed it seems. Sorry for the trouble with that. (And maybe 2-3 hours with Rails is more accurate, but I still didn’t get very deep.)

stephan

May 12th, 2006

I’ve been doing RoR in some projects and I really like it. It’s fast. Now I like Grails more. Never done JSF, it got a lot of bad press and flak from the splintered, agressive and very competitive Java web framework “community”. And I’ve got the impression the current hyped things are wicket, seam et. al.

What people wrote somewhere else:

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