Full hotswap capability (which is available as a patch, today, due to the work of a true genius Thomas Würthinger and his team) should be the first entry, the s

Full hotswap capability (which is available as a patch, today, due to the work of a true genius Thomas Würthinger and his team) should be the first entry, the second entry, every entry all the way down to the end. All the rest should be footnote nice-to-haves. The JVM Language conference once again demonstrated how out of touch with day-to-day JVM development it is. The focus was nearly entirely on how to make dynamic languages fast (method handles, apparently) and how to deal with concurrency (functional programming, of course.) The first problem affects _maybe_ 1% of the JVM's users. The second problem isn't nearly the crisis it is made out to be (server side software keeps the CPUs full and, when it doesn't, there are plenty of fork-join-like libraries out there.) Meanwhile, poor assholes doing java web app development are breaking concentration to bounce their server every time they change a method signature. Unbelievable. Cheers, Carson