Sun Web app guru Tim Bray was in the middle of yet another diatribe about how much better REST is than SOAP when he let slip a shocking admission: Java developers no longer rule the elaborate social hierarchy of computer programming! “The Java language is not what the cool kids are choosing to use these days,” he said. He went on to clarify that Java was still popular, meaning that it’s like the square but generally well-liked student body president, whereas hipster languages like Ruby are the like those kids who cut class to hang out under the bleachers and listened to music that nobody else ever heard of. Meanwhile, millions of Java programmers wept softly at discovering that they had at one point been “cool kids” and hadn’t been informed in time to enjoy it. Software Development