Why does it have to be a battle? I'd like to believe that there will be an ecosystem consisting of a few popular jvm languages living in harmony.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 11:27 +0000, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > > These new languages will probably succeed in making local type inference > the standard, like C# and Scala before them. > > > > The null-safety is always interesting, how does that interact with Java > code? Do we assume every Java method might return null? > > > > It doesn't sound complete enough to be worth a download yet. > > Downloaded, installed, tried "hello world", failed to be able to execute > any compiled code -- online documentation is inconsistent with the > command lines as issued. Will wait for 0.2. > > The ensuing battle between Java 8, Kotlin, Ceylon and Scala is going to > be interesting to spectate. > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > -- Jeb Beich http://www.red-source.net/jeb -- 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.
