"JavaFX Script is a great new language, but it is not the successor >to Java. JavaFX is for GUIs. That's it's focus and using it for >anything else will end in pain. :)
Have any specifics on how "anything else will end in pain."? JavaFx has a lot of features I like and seem general purpose to me: events/ properties, list literals, no primitives, etc. But I haven't actually used it of course. >"I'm not convinced that there will ever be a successor to >Java because I don't think the world wants new general purpose >languages. It wants sets of languages & apis & tools that are targeted >at solving particular problems. The future is lots of languages >running on the common JVM and underlying JRE runtime. " That I don't buy. I think that the key is that any new general purpose language should be able to be bent to your will. In other words, any possible successor should support rich meta-programming. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
