It's a long row to hoe. There are plenty of languages for the JVM, and I don't just mean academic ones, which never built up a sizable community. As far as Java.Next, whatever that is supposed to be, take a look at Nice--http://nice.sourceforge.net/--solid improvements over Java, statically typed, mixins, multimethods, new approach to null values, etc. Has a compiler, documentation, tutorials, interoperates with Java, etc. Widely praised by those who looked at it, AFAICT, and got no traction. Maybe it was too early in the game or not radical enough. Who knows?
Why did BeanShell die out? Why didn't Pnuts (or pick your other little language) catch on? Why does Clojure already have a vibrant, active, friendly community while all the other Lisps and Schemes on the JVM didn't? (and no, from reading the mailing list I don't think it's the features related to concurrency). Is is marketing? A charismatic leader? It can't be tool support; look at Ruby, plenty of people are happy to code Ruby, not to mention C, Perl, Python or PHP, without any special editor support other than perhaps syntax highlighting. It's a mystery as far as I'm concerned. All those languages that didn't catch on are all cautionary tales for those trying to create the next big thing. I think the Noopers don't realize how much work they've cut out for themselves. Personally, I think it's fun to see the experimentation, but honestly I'm not all that impressed by a couple of guys showing up with a lot of enthusiasm. Patrick On Sep 17, 7:47 pm, CKoerner <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Google-Delivers-New-... > > ( or is it Scala? or somting else? ) > > What do you think? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
