On Aug 11, 8:55 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > The somewhat under-covered language Fan is getting NetBeans support. > It's still early days, but already has rudimentary support for:
I like Fan. But to be honest, I wish there wasn't quite so much attention paid to API-compatibility across both JVM and CLR worlds. I tell you right now, if a language with static-typing, roughly Java- like structure, and an appropriate set of syntactic enhancements (local type inference, real closures or sugared-up anon classes, additional literals, ...) you'd be well on the way to *really* having a replacement for Java, rather than expecting all the Java developers in the world to switch both language and paradigm. Fan could be that language, if divorced from its slavish devotion to cross- compatibility... - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
