Definitely jealous about the no apologies - for both Java versions and removing methods from the API without changing package name.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > In general, it is going to be very, very hard for Commons to go up against > guava. The Preconditions stuff is only the tip of the ice-berg. The > advantages highlighted in the blog are typical of every aspect of guava ... > well thought out (the different exception types and varargs for instance) > and absolutely no apologies for requiring recent Java versions. > > To actually match the quality of guava, Commons would have to stop worrying > about minutiae like whether or not there is a Validate.isNotEmpty and start > pushing hard and fast against the real issues. > > > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > this came in via twitter: > > > > > http://piotrjagielski.com/blog/google-guava-vs-apache-commons-for-argument-validation/ > > > > What do we do, to win the next contest? :-) > > > > Benedikt > > > > > > -- > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > http://github.com/britter > > >
