Spring Break just ended. We'll go back to our normal schedule tomorrow. As if it had never happened. But during the break, I was occupying myself by once again trying to build a 3D printer: I'm on v6.0 or so by now. In any case, for part of it I am trying to use the Lego NXT microcontroller and motors. They're usually programmed with "NXT-G," a graphical language, but it was too slow; instead, I found a very small distribution of Java.
With Java on the NXT, then, I wrote Pong in about five minutes to test it out, then tried to control the motors. Unfortunately, that did not work for me. I don't know why. But- it was Java!
On a similar note, the Arduino (I was trying to implement threading) has a language similar to Java as well.
It seems, nowadays, that Java is becoming more and more widespread. People who I talk to that use C or C++ don't like it, but everyone else does. From what I know of computer programming history (which is not very much), Python and the like are the new Java, and Java, in turn, is now put up with the C's. I start to wonder what will come next.