When Intel produced laughable chips for years they still remain the absolute market leader, because of their unethical tactics. Therefore AMD was not able to collect its well earned profit, so they had no resources to improve faster.

This is the classical case of monopoly, the resources cannot go to the better company, like they would on a free market.

I believe that anybody not totally illiterate (yes, for example RTFA), with at least some small amount of ethics, will not buy anything from Intel in the foreseeable future.

Because it is much faster, if you know what you are looking for. I am on Windows 7, I tried Unity in a virtual machine for a few minutes, but I do not remember if its search function was fast enough or not.

I would add that mobile programming also seems to be very popular among beginners.

I have recently contributed a few answers to stackoverflow in a language independent subject. I did notice that PHP programmers asks the most obvious questions, immediately after C# programmers. Based on my experience the statistics on stackoverflow show one thing: popularity of a language in the group of wanna-be programmers (maybe they do not even want to be programmers).

Yes, that is true, a small C application requires much less memory than a small Java. On the plus side it does not require much more memory even after it starts to serve ten thousands users.

By the way the Java apps open: an IDE, a text editor, a personal time keeper, an app server. Occassionally a casual game. The biggest memory hog on my machine is Opera, which was - as I know - written in C.

I had exactly 5 running Java applications 2 minutes ago, but since then I closed one after I won that chess match.

OK, one is not an application but an Apache Tomcat server I use for development.

They also wrote that they could have used Javascript as well, and even call for a Javascript version.

We are a small casual game site only, but we have a several hundred thousands regular user base, and we are using Java applets. No, it is not Runescape.

In the last ten years I only remember about two or three really critical Java exploits. Please show me a similar or even much simpler software with a security track better than Java.

I would add that this is a TLS vulnerability, it has almost nothing to do with Java. The exploit was written in Java, because it was comfortable. The authors mention on their YouTube video, that they could equally well use Javascript. I assume that they could have used Flash too.

Flast does not help if you try to do more complex things and in one of our projects it turned out that the same thing runs significantly slower in Flash than in Java.

I do not know a solution. But I know that Apache Tomcat developers made an effort to eliminate all class loading leaks from Tomcat itself, moreover in the last versions there is a mechanism in Tomcat which tries to detect and log possible class leak issues. It indeed show a few problems in my code.