.:: a few thoughts on the subject by rob wright ::.

Technologies to Watch: A Look at Four That May Challenge Java’s Development Dominance
Good insight, and definately the “party line” with the development press. My thoughts…

• Dynamic Languages - There has to be some benefit to static typing. In my experience, everyone’s QA is just not that good, and it’s hard for me to believe that someone won’t discover a bug in a production deployment due to dynamic typing. The exception is probably application’s dominated by string manipulation such as web based applications. Just don’t think that dynamic typing is the best solution to every problem.
• Continuation Servers - I completely agree.
• Convention Over Configuration - I even more completely agree. I’m sick of “XML programming” so that I can have a fully configurable system. The configuration is as complicated as the runtime.
• Metaprogramming - Sounds nice, but won’t I have the same problem that I have with existing O-R mapping frameworks? How do I handle complex joins?