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> Most of the new development in Java is syntactic sugar, not JVM-level. That's not true. The javac team is what 5% of all people working on OpenJDK.
by kasperni 7y ago
> Most of the new development in Java is syntactic sugar, not JVM-level.
That's not true. The javac team is what 5% of all people working on OpenJDK.
- dehrmann 7y agoAre they adding instructions to the language or working optimizing the JVM, though? My point was that someone writing the language targeting the JVM will compile to Java bytecode, so missing/suboptimal instructions are where they're mostly likely to feel pain.