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Redhat abstained instead of saying No. Few weeks back they dumped their home grown Ceylon language on to Eclipse foundation. Seems like they are going to stick
by geodel 9y ago
Redhat abstained instead of saying No. Few weeks back they dumped their home grown Ceylon language on to Eclipse foundation. Seems like they are going to stick with Java even if unwillingly.
- exabrial 9y agoA few years ago, all the hip kids were making JVM languages that were "Better" and "More Productive". Ceylon was just a few Redhat employees attempt at chasing market trends.
- RhodesianHunter 9y agoAnd now we have Kotlin, which is in fact better.
- orclev 9y agoWell, I don't know about better, Ceylon is just a different approach. There are some things Ceylon does that I like better than Kotlin, and vice versa. Both are certainly better than Java though.
- _old_dude_ 9y agoCeylon has two things that Kotlin should have IMO, a better type system, where are my union types and intersection types ? :) and a real specification. Otherwise i prefer Kotlin ...
- vorg 9y agoKotlin was designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with IDE IntelliJ (and hence Android Studio), whereas Ceylon joining the Eclipse Foundation was just an afterthought and its Eclipse IDE integration isn't guaranteed to be great.
- vorg 9y agoI notice the name of Ceylon has changed to Eclipse Ceylon [1], in the same way Groovy became Apache Groovy when it joined the Apache foundation 2 years ago. [1] https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ceylon https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ceylon