James Gosling has left Sun.
And I hadn’t heard of it until now. Looks like I’m not such a geek after all.
But it shocked me just as much as when I heard that J.D. Salinger had died – it actually made my eyes well up – so I guess I am quite a geek.
When I wrote about the departure of other Java Gods, I thought I was making a joke when I wondered how long James Gosling would remain at Sun. Now Guy Steele is the last man standing… but for how long?
Ever since the takeover by Oracle, I haven’t had a good feeling about the future of Java. IBM would have been a much better match. Oy vey…