On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm hoping I'll be seeing some actual innovations and not just a loose > collection of 'lets fix java things'. This notion of offering a structural > way to store hierarchical data in the language itself in order to ditch the > frequent need for XML(-esque) config files is interesting though it sounds a > bit familiar (GoSu has something similar as does JavaFXScript). Gosu recently released the latest version of their XML support<http://gosu-lang.org/xml/introxml/index.html>and I can't say I'm very impressed: the code and IDE support is pretty much exactly what we are getting today in Java with XML-Schema technologies: full Java completion, outline, round-tripping between .xsd/.xml/.java, etc... I think the only languages that have successfully tackled the "statically typed XML in Java" problem so far are Fantom (take a look at how they define GUI's in pure Fantom) and JavaFX. Scala's support for XML literals bridges some gap there but not in the same seamless manner. -- Cédric -- 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.
