As long as there is a benefit, the work will get done. The tools make developers more productive so the work has shifted there. Improving the language is no longer trivial and thus the ROI is very low. The process is so slow and who wants to wait? You can update the IDE and use your improvement right away. Try to get that into the language and you have a major fight on your hands and it could be more than a year before you see it included in a JDK that most businesses won't upgrade to for another year.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 24, 9:17 pm, Robert Lally <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Have we, by reducing the cost of the tools we love, also reduced the > value > > to be gained by improving them to zero? I'm not really sure, but I think > it > > is possible. > > > > But tooling is where Java rocks. Netbeans, Eclipse, Maven, OSGi... > they are all free/oss, improving all the time, and make developing > with a tired old language tolerable :) > > The *language* might be in maintenance mode (for sensible reasons), > but the tools are not. > > - Steve > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
