Folks,
Weiqi Gao is a friend of mine, and asked a question on episode #225. >From my conversations with him in the past months, and recently, I think his question was misunderstood on the podcast. Undoubtedly, the _JVM world_ has a lot of exciting things: Weiqi himself is contributing to a book for JavaFX, and has tracked new trends on his blog for years. However, the JVM world is splintering into subgroups: JavaFX, Scala, Android, etc each have their own scene, each distinct from the core Java language and libraries. This is terrific, but relevant to understanding the angle of the question. If I may re-phrase his question, and add my own spice: Q: Is there anything upcoming in good old Java (the core language or libraries) that excites _most_ everyone in the Java community? That is, in a unifying way which transcends the camp boundaries and makes people -- neo-nerds and Java mainstreamers alike -- stop and say "hey I didn't know Java could do that!" ? I look forward to a discussion on the forum... thanks, Michael Easter ps. One possible answer, IMO is the Fork-Join library pps. Weiqi is pronounced (way-chee), per his website: http://www.weiqigao.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
