jddarcy wrote:
> Sun is not preventing anyone from undertaking the work of exploring a
> language change. Rather, especially with OpenJDK, we have greatly
> facilitated such explorations.
>
>
Let me add another consideration. The fact that there are a number of
new languages around, and some - good or not - are production-ready
(e.g. Groovy or Scala) demonstrates that the "community" (still using
quotes because of my doubts about its definition) is capable to create a
new language out of the Java platform without Sun support. We also got
IDE support for many of those languages. While I don't want to make any
forecast for the future, Groovy and Scala got even their sub-communities
that are not irrelevant.
So, why doesn't somebody just pull J7 out? I mean, a language that
instead of being a totally new thing such as Groovy or Scala, is
basically "what-the-community-allegedly-wants-for-Java-7". In my point
it would be probably a bad idea, as I prefer Java to stay conservative
and new things to appear on brand new stuff, but people who are asking
to make JDK 7 in a different way clearly think different. The tech tools
are there and have been enumerated by jddarcy.
Pull it out and throw it to the wolves - and let the "community" decide
in the broader sense ("competition") of my previous post.
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