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> The only think I see now is the transition to separate and a completely independent technology. GCJ would be what you're looking for here, I think. The criti
by regularfry 16y ago
> The only think I see now is the transition to separate and a completely independent technology.
GCJ would be what you're looking for here, I think. The critical question would be how badly, if at all, GCJ would be affected by an Oracle militantly pursuing perceived patent violators.
> languages have progressed beyond Java now
It's not about the language. It's about the collosal amount of libraries in the ecosystem.
- kls 16y agoI think and I could be totally wrong on this one, but I think that Oracle could construe the GCJ as appropriating their ideas and infringing on their patents. Moving to something like the LLVM would at least help distance Apache from that. My point as far as languages go was not that the libraries are not worth it but if you have to go so far as moving all of them over too a wholly separate run-time, is it even worth it to continue Java the language or would it be better to just adopt Scala or some other language that incorporates modern features and make it compatible with the ported library set. I was really pondering if you go all that way, is it worth it to just go that last 1/10 of a mile, instead of trying to bring Java the language into the modern age.