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Oracle has been dragging their feet on adding new language features and their developer base is getting tired of the extremely long wait times. Having to wait u

Oracle has been dragging their feet on adding new language features and their developer base is getting tired of the extremely long wait times. Having to wait until 2020, or longer, for values types, generic specialization and a proper FFI is ludicrous especially when you consider that these features could have arrived in Java 9 had it not been for the prioritization of Project Jigsaw. As for Oracle trying to close Java - any attempt to do so would be a disaster. IBM, Red Hat and other major players in the Java space would organize and fork the language.

pjmlp 9y ago
If IBM and Red Hat cared that much, they would have bought Sun in first place.
- krzyk 9y ago
  IBM tried, but Oracle gave more money.
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    I know, but IBM could still have tried to give more if it was actually interested in preventing any nasty effects into the Java ecosystem.
    - remline 9y ago
      The result is insufficient evidence that IBM didn't have the highest cut-off. McNealy interfered to get the legacy he wanted.