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> Also, I assume that JetBrains would be open to other features > that Google would like in a Java-replacement. I could totally understand that, it would proba
by frowaway001 12y ago
> Also, I assume that JetBrains would be open to other features
> that Google would like in a Java-replacement.
I could totally understand that, it would probably their last and only chance to get some users.
I don't want to sound harsh, but their situations must be quite dire right now. The language is still stuck in some 0.x-land (unlike Ceylon), Java 8 shipped with most of their features already, they are unable to compete with better languages (like Scala) and the tooling and IDE situation looks pretty bad, too.
> At any rate, all JVM languages, including Scala are going to be
> limited by the VM and bytecode. So, you'll have to live with type
> erasure, without your own value types, etc.
Because having a VM with value types and working Generics is such an impossible feat that no one managed to implement it? I guess not.
No one is preventing them from supporting a superset of the class file format which allows value types and better Generics.