It's Bruce Eckel. He's selling whatever's flavor of the month. The guy switches ...

kev6168 · on April 17, 2015

Really? I don't think he has been constantly chasing the hot thingy in the past 10 years, stuff like Ruby/Rails, Coffeescript, Clojure, Kotlin, Node, Typescript, F#, Go, Rust, Nim, Elixir, Meteor ...

TylerE · on April 17, 2015

He was C++, then Java, then he was C++ again then he was Python... Then he wrote about Flex, and now Scala...

kev6168 · on April 17, 2015

I remember reading his blog [0] on Scala 4 years ago, it might be the flavor of the month at that time.

[0] http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=328540

Confusion · on April 17, 2015

God forbid someone sees benefit in a variety of technologies and writes about each of them, sometimes revisiting earlier opinions.

weego · on April 17, 2015

Because the people we really want to hear from are career-long zealots that never cross-learn?

zak_mc_kracken · on April 17, 2015

His livelihood is about presenting at conferences and writing books. It's basically his job to dig up new technologies and fake excitement about them. Without that, he's out of a job.

technomancy · on April 17, 2015

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"