> There are a few things that I don't understand. Well, that JDK 7 > delays doesn't surprise me either, considering the mess that was > already started under the last months of the Sun management. In > particular, the way closures were brought again on the carpet, without > a clear idea of what to do, was worrying. So, my question:
The JDK 7 delay doesn't surprise me either. That's exactly the point that makes me extremely upset actually. I am sure you remember I told you at end of 2009 or during the first months of the current year at latest, that in my opinion it was practically impossible that they could meet the deadline of delivering Lambda before the end of 2010 as they claimed. How do you explain that? At the moment I can imagine 2 possibilities: a. I am a genius since I have been able to foresee, many months before people working in Oracle, what was going to happen. I honestly don't think that but if that's true I don't understand why Oracle doesn't hire me :) b. They lied knowing that they was lying. And if that's true as I am afraid of, I'd like to know why they decided to do that. > 1. I thought that Jigsaw was pretty complete, and project Coin pretty > simple. So, what are the things preventing them from being ready soon? I thought the same. And have no answer :( > 2. Why did Lambda restarted the discussion from scratch, just to > realize that there's nothing concrete, when there were already two > proposals that as far as I understand were formulated in very good > details? Actually there were 3 different proposals (BGGA, CICE (my favorite one) and FCM). I made the same question in November 2009 and didn't receive an answer too. > In any case, for what I see every day, none of my customers will be > minimally worried about that. Of course your customers like mine don't care about Lambda. For what it worth I guess they would be happy even if you wrote your software in cobol provided that you meet their expectations. > PS Scala guys should realize that this event is really putting a lot > of pressure on the Scala community. Now you have a window of 1.5 > years: if Scala doesn't manage to get popular before Java 7 is > released, there won't any more chances for Scala. It would mean that > people really don't care a bit about closures, lambda stuff and all > the other Scala stuff. As Kevin wrote the Scala guys are already at work on the next cool thing (parallel collection). And for sure we don't have to wait till mid 2012 before to see it delivered. Moreover some very interesting tools, libraries and frameworks are already mature enough to be used in production environments. And in my small experience they dramatically improve your productivity. Give a loot at Akka for example. There is only one word to describe it: AWESOME. I don't know if Scala will become the next big language. Sadly not always the best technology is always the winning one. Nevertheless I believe it has all the requirements to become mainstream. That said, as usual the market will decide. -- 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.
