Is Java Obsolete? Anyone familiar

Is Java Obsolete? Anyone familiar with the way the press works will recognise that headlines are used to attract attention, and that being attacked is fine: it is being ignored that is fatal. But the article made a perfectly reasonable point, while the response seems to have been unreasonable. That doesn't really surprise me. I've seen it all before. In fact, I've been seeing the same thing for 20 years. I've seen similar responses from Acorn users, Amiga users, Apple Macintosh users, Linux users, and others with a religious commitment to some platform that 99.99% of the world (or more) frankly could not give a damn about. Rational argument is part of the fun of the game, of course, but real zealotry is just sad. Mainly it reveals that a sizeable number of computer users have frighteningly impoverished personalities. The traditional response is: "Get a life." Alas, this is easier said than done.