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[Autumnlicious]

Hehe, unfortunately I don't know Adobe Flex. :-)

I do. I work in it every day.

For the sake of all that is perverted and fun, DON'T TOUCH IT.

Seriously, while the language of actionscript, for the most part, is nice, there are some incredible inanities that make developers seethe "Gods I wish flash was dead."

Agree with Tiberius on Java being the language of the future.

I disagree -- with Java, you get a series of drawbacks that often leave one questioning the applicability of it. For instance, object creation is rather expensive in the JVM. You more often find that Java is fragile performance-wise to bad programming patterns.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/kim/publicity...torial.pdf

No, I think the future lies with higher level languages and partial compilation, with each language sporting projects that make it more of a domain-specific-language for particular purposes.

Java is nice for somethings -- like long lived database arbiters with many immutables. For things like web services, not really. That niche does exist, but it is a small one, where memory is not a premium.