On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Brian Bockelman <[email protected]>wrote:
> You know, I was looking around for Java EOL information a few weeks ago and > found this: > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > > I might not be reading closely enough, but that says Java 6 is EOL in 9 > months. In terms of major releases and getting things stable… that's just > around the corner. > > Brian > > On Oct 8, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > I hate to sound like the folks who only recently stopped using 1.4, but I > am > > afraid that Todd is right on here. > > > > The folks who are desperate for new features are being siphoned off by > Scala > > and Clojure which is leaving a core of recalcitrant termagants like me. > I > > think that it is going to take something as major as the EOL of Java 6 to > > get big projects to allow code that requires Java 7. > Classic. The conversations about requiring Java 6 are just barely dying down in time for EOL of Java 6. Maybe we ought start talking about requiring java 9 NOW so that we can finish in time for it to end. Yowza.
