Roel will be at devoxx as well, and we'd be honoured to be interviewed if you want one!
On Sep 24, 5:22 pm, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > Glad you liked it - I know we had one side of the story given the > people there but I did try and honestly advocate for Lombok and for > library vs. language extensibility. Honestly I think lombok is a very > neat idea - I can't use it yet personally for the reasons stated in > the interview (netbeans/idea support are necessary at my work place), > and also because I use Scala for a lot more stuff, but when I tried it > it worked great, and bringing scala "case classes" to Java is > definitely high on my list of cool boilerplate things. The comments > about closures were based on comments that even Reinier sent in after > our initial speculation had been done, and I didn't know how that > might work, but it sounds like you guys are definitely going to try > and I will be following the results carefully. I can see many > possibilities for Lombok in the future, but I wonder if perhaps the > biggest one is that it will be a lightning rod for change. > > Reinier, we like to be able to offer both sides of the stories, and I > understand you will be at Devoxx, so maybe we can catch up with you > there, tackle some of the questions Joe and Alex raised, and get a > state of the union about Lombok. And folks, please remember, we are > trying to follow the story, not take sides. Personally I think lombok > is dead clever, it's just not quite usable for me yet... > > Cheers > > Dick > > On Sep 23, 7:11 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > That was possibly your finest interview yet. For a bunch of self- > > proclaimed simpletons, those were some rather in-depth questions! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
