About project lombok, in reply to: On Aug 13, 7:50 pm, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@gmail.com> wrote: > Project Lombok seems to be mostly a set of annotations for common Java > patterns, rather than a new language. What I'd like to see is someone > take javac, hack all the missing features into it, and call it > something new.
Annotations for now because they are nice and namespaced, but there's nothing in the lombok framework that _requires_ annotations. lombok could rewrite every instance of 'a == b' where both a and b are objects, to 'a == null ? b == null : a.equals(b)' if you wanted it to. The problem with creating a new javac is that people don't write code in notepad, but in eclipse. So, unless your java.next comes with a plugin for that, you can't get to critical mass without slowly building up from a core of hardcore fans. Scala can get away with it, but that's only because scala is radical. A language which is just java with a few less warts isn't going to make people drop back down to notepad for a year or 5 until the community is large enough to start writing IDE plugins. A similar argument holds for people ditching their code and starting over. Hence, lombok starts from day 1 with not just an IDE plugin, but an utterly transparent experience, with all existing code already legal. You can start using project lombok on your existing 1 million kLoC project, inside of 20 seconds (no lie - check the video on projectlombok.org). > > - 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 javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
