> Java 1.4 survived much longer than it should, in any case since about > one year all the "enterprise" customers I deal with run on Java 6. > Non-reified generics would have been an excellent solution for keeping > them with 1.4 still today and have much more painful headaches than > those with generics.
Wow, and we haven't even covered how "great" Java generics and arrays mix! Java's history is saturated with such compromising solutions, but at some point the increased entropy and ceremony has to be addressed with something else than lipstick and rouge! Otherwise you fork the community and create refugee camps, alas, Scala and Lombok. Granted, there will always be people content with "good enough", but that's an evolutionary dead-end in regard to talent-pool harvesting. Looking at the few high-profile people left driving Java, compared to alternatives, aught to be a good indicator of what Java will be reduced to 5 years from now. -- 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.
