I like this article as a summary of the State of the Hype, but I'm skeptical of the word "inflection point". Most of what I see here is either noise (spiky but meaningless) or long-term trends. Some of these trends are ten years old and more:
Today you'd be nuts not to look seriously at PHP, Python, and Ruby.
If you substitute "Perl" for "Ruby", this sentence could have been written in 1999. The only difference is that Java was on the upward slope of the hype curve back then, so fewer people would have believed the sentence.
I'd agree that software is changing a lot right now. But is it really changing that much more rapidly now than in, say, 1998? Or 1988?
Today you'd be nuts not to look seriously at PHP, Python, and Ruby.
If you substitute "Perl" for "Ruby", this sentence could have been written in 1999. The only difference is that Java was on the upward slope of the hype curve back then, so fewer people would have believed the sentence.
I'd agree that software is changing a lot right now. But is it really changing that much more rapidly now than in, say, 1998? Or 1988?