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Breaking 30+ years of source compatibility? Why? Why don't just use any JVM languages?

• twic 2y ago
  This change would not break any source compatibility.
• voidfunc 2y ago
  Some us actually work on real software with dozens or hundreds of other devs and not toys. We can't always just "use any JVM language".
  • imtringued 2y ago
    I wish Oracle would just offer Java editions, where they break syntactical backwards compatiblity, but retain backwards compatibility on the bytecode level. Of course, 99% of the language should stay the same with most of the syntactical changes just getting rid of the annotation mess that proper Java would be.
    • pjmlp 2y ago
      That is already what guest languages offer, but then there is always the caveat that their subculture only sees the JVM as a bootstrapping tool for their little ecosystem.