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I think waiting for Oracle to do something with Java 7 at this point is like believing Lucy will let you kick the football this time.
by WilliamLP 16y ago
I think waiting for Oracle to do something with Java 7 at this point is like believing Lucy will let you kick the football this time.
- avar 16y agoIs there anything to suggest that they'll let the current development hell continue? They have a lot invested in Java now, they might actually get their act together and push Java forward. Both to make it attractive to the programmers that like C# better, and to add features to the JVM to allow alternate languages to thrive, e.g. tail-calls and coroutines.
- WilliamLP 16y ago> Is there anything to suggest that they'll let the current development hell continue? History, inertia, lack of any demonstrated interest or unified direction, key Java players running away, a change in planned features every month, no clear incentive, almost no interest from Java programmers? (What interest there is seems to be mainly from the fringe community involved in Scala and Clojure, who want invokeDynamic.)
- bad_user 16y ago> tail-calls and coroutines Wanna bet those are never going to make it in Java7? Oh wait ... probably some half-baked form of those will ... after all, they are calling anonymous method blocks that DON'T capture the whole current context "closures". Not to mention that they could've inferred the type of the requested function ... an instance where those half-baked generics could've actually been somewhat useful, instead of just a way to avoid explicit type-casts. The whole language is fucked-up. They should've just froze it at version 1.4 and be done with it.
- zmmmmm 16y agoI don't know why you say that. Oracle is brand new on this turf. There has been no chance of kicking any footballs under their watch yet. They deserve a chance to prove whether they're good or evil without prejudice here.