The Disco Blog

Prognostication is by no means my bag and more often than not, speculative guesses about the future are incorrect– yet, if history has shown anybody anything, it’s that history (when examined in context) is often a good indicator of what’s to come. In fact, things in our hip industry rarely happen over night– by understanding what shaped yesterday, you can often get a handle on what’s coming tomorrow.

For instance, how would anyone have guessed that back in the 70’s disco would survive and flourish into the 21st century? Yet, if you study the trends of today, you can plainly see that disco music is alive and kicking. I’m proud to say that disco is stronger than ever, baby.

Disco music aside, I had the pleasure of speculating on what 2008 holds for the Java platform– in short, if you look at the major aspects of 2007, among other noteworthy matters, you’ll see a clear interest in dynamic languages, fueled by JRuby and Groovy, you’ll see a more open Java, both on the platform itself and the business model surrounding it, and you’ll see that Google is becoming (if not already) a major force shaping Java. Indeed, 2008 is going to be all about dynamic languages, agility, and disco.

Check out JavaWorld’s “The future is now — Java development in 2008” and let me what you think!

I’d also like to thank the following copasetic individuals whose bag of valuable insights regarding all things Java helped shaped the article: Neal Ford, Andres Almiray, Dan Allen, Ted Neward, Scott Stirling, Scott Moore, John Smart, Nate Schutta, Michael Nyika, Venkat Subramaniam, Guillaume Laforge, Scott Delap, Paul Duvall, David Pinkham, Rod Coffin, Andrew Binstock, Ken Brooks, Jay Zimmerman, Paul Julius, Tom Copeland, Navjeet Chabbewal, Jason Rudolph, Chris Judd, Dave Aronson, Cliff Berg, David Bock, and finally Alex Ruiz & Yvonne. Thank you all for being so hip, baby!

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