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People have been talking about using Java for everything for a long time.

Honestly, its not the wonder silver bullet that its made out to be.

For "everything"? Definitely not.

'At Sun we used to say, "The answer is Java! . . . Now, what was your question?" '
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:35Pq8vI-54IJ:blogs.sun.com/carlaking/entry/tim_bray_you_tell_the

There are a lot of people who *do* want to use it for everything.

Aesthetically, it's still ugly. It is way too verbose. It suffers mightily from having to be much like an improved C++, so that it could start to get reach into dev shops in the mid 90s.

Learn it if you have to. Learn it so that you can get a job. But I can't imagine ever implementing something in it that wasn't a desktop app, and since I've got no interest in doing that, I'll just play at the edges.

It just gets beat in every other area.

I understand the idea of wanting to leverage your existing dev knowledge and moving java in to all of these new areas, but I think that overestimates the learning curve of the new platforms vs the boosts you can get using a language with less mental overhead.

Controversy is always good at getting readers. Cheap, but effective.