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Well, Ruby is waning, Python is surging, and JavaScript is peaking. How will this look in 5 years? How about 10 years?

Would you say PHP is in fashion? How about Perl or Tcl?

Who cares about fashion? In 15 years Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Perl, TCL (particularly for building simplistic but effective GUIs), and PHP will all not only be usable, but actively used.

This thread is about fashion.

Did you read what the OP quoted? Here it is:

> Languages, especially dynamic ones and their runtime environments come and go like fashion.

He's talking about languages coming on going. "Languages, especially dynamic ones and their runtime environments come and go like fashion. When your target platform suddenly gets deprecated from the runtime you’re relying on, well then you’re just fucked and out of luck."

Java is here since 1995 and going nowhere in near future.

Is Java in fashion? This thread is about the fashionability of languages, not the age of the language.

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