Have you ever burned your hands by some new and immature technology?

Question

I often hear people saying you shouldn\'t rush into adopting new technologies until they have become stable, tried and tested. There is even a joke on how it takes 3 versions to

Answer 1

Java

I was very eager to start working on it in 1996 and used it for several projects. But for web development I always preferred Perl and these days PHP. GUI development I ended up mostly using .NET. For the few command line programs that cannot be handled by scripting I prefer to use Perl, Python or even for that PHP.

Few of the Java programs I wrote were used over long periods of time, while some of my pre-java applications are still in use.

I think the main reason for this is that it always took longer to develop something in Java than using another programming language: so the resulting applications contained less features and were easier to replace.

As speed of development is usually an issue for my customers Java tends to end up as the second choice.