While I just just joined the community, so I am yet to be aware of the internals of Flink but I am already liking the feature enhancements in Java 7 (type inferences, try-with-resources, diamond operator comes to my mind).
A digressing question, and I am sure this has would have been debated extensively so pardon for bringing this up again.., but how did we chose between java and scala? On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Henry Saputra <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Guys, > > I am wondering what do you guys think if we make Flink requires Java7 > for both compile and runtime? > > Several reasons why I am proposing this: > 1. Java6 has reached end of life as announced by Oracle. We have seen > compile error happening with some versions of Java 6 > 2. Flink is just starting and hence have more flexibility to move to Java 7 > 3. Flink does not have compile dependencies that requires Java 6 > 4. Java 7 enhancements: > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-relnotes-418459.html > > > Let me know what do you guys think. > > - Henry > -- Mohit "When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success." -Socrates
