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What are the odds again that we'll ever see widespread adoption of Java 7?

• zmmmmm 17y ago
  The JVM is going to spread quickly as it will (or at least, should) offer performance advantages for the many various dynamic languages that run on it. As for Java7 - it will be slower to spread but I think the addition of closures will be decisive in garnering developer support for it as a wealth of new APIs (or reworking of old ones) will quickly appear that will have everyone wanting to upgrade. So it will happen for most server side code within a couple of years I would expect.
  • Spreadsheet 17y ago
    Also, Java 7 will have native support for dynamic typing.
  • seunosewa 17y ago
    Java 7 doesn't have closures. Personally, I just want a better syntax for instantiating anonymous classes. I find that ful closures aren't really necessary.
    • brazzy 17y ago
      Actually, the current status is that Java 7 will have closures.
• j_baker 17y ago
  Have we even seen widespread adoption of Java 6 yet?
• brazzy 17y ago
  Um... about 100%?