On 06/25/2011 01:06 PM, Casper Bang wrote:
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.
That's perfectly normal: the 0.00001% of skilled people that need better
languages _are expected_ to "fork" and create better languages. The
remainder 99.99999% of the world will stay with the mainstream. After
some time, the most relevant improvements will percolate. Once one
realizes that that 99.99999% is the portion that makes most of the GWP,
keeps up most of the everyday services that the world relies upon and
most of the people work with, this schema makes perfectly sense.
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