Depending on the goals, the standard library is an integral aspect of a programming language. Certainly a language like Groovy is designed to embrace the Java library, but the intent of Fan was to start with a clean slate from the decade of cruft which has set into the Java libraries. So for us there is no separation in our problem space between language and library - part of our mission is to provide a better library for core functions. I personally think the Java libraries need a lot more fixing than the Java language.
Although we just recently added a Java FFI which lets you use any Java library seamlessly - so if there is a desire to just use Fan against existing Java libraries, then that is now easy. And we will do likewise for .NET. I feel portability between Java and .NET is immensely important, which is why we do it. I can assure you from first hand knowledge that the number of shops who care about this issue is not small at all, it is an absolutely huge problem for a lot of companies. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
