On Aug 30, 3:20 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I guess the big news, apart from the changes themselves, is that this
> > is the first time Sun opened the process up to input from the
> > community.
>
> Oh I don't know about that, go ask Apache what they think about Sun's
> treatment of the community.
I think that's off-topic. Sun is a large company and I wasn't saying
they always (or even usually) get it right; I'm pretty bummed for
example that Sun backed away this spring from releasing the new
Webstart codebase. In this case (language changes) I was happy they
opened up the process somewhat, even if the final evaluation and
decision-making was done internally.
> As for the topic, I find this syntax sugar
> pretty underwhelming and doubt if it's enough incentive for people/
> organizations to move to JDK7.
I've never worked at a company which would have moved to a new JDK
just because of language features. Usually it was a combination of new
APIs and a better JVM. Personally, I'll be happy that ARM and the new
collections-access and diamond operator will be available.
>Sounds like the safe route is taken or
> there's just nobody left at Sun who dares to touch the type-system.
I think that it may rather be they ran out of time since the move to
OpenJDK and the investment into JavaFX took up a lot of engineering
resources. By the time they started on these language enhancements,
they had left themselves little time to do anything major, and in fact
explicitly said they were looking for small language changes only.
Cheers
Patrick
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