On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 16:41 -0700, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
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> As for the concurrency library... seriously? java.concurrent.util is not
> just very powerful, it's very well designed and it's running tens of
> thousands of high volume web sites today. No other library can claim to
> come close to this, except maybe .net's.

Sadly though it doesn't look like ParallelArray will make it into Java
8. Unless I missed something recently.

java.concurrent.util is showing more and more high-level features as
Doug et al. work them in, but the problem remains that most Java
programmers still think shared-memory multi-threading is the way to code
up parallel algorithms.

Clearly GPars and Akka are trying to provide something at higher levels,
but traction is relatively poor amongst people other than very early
adopters.

Having done some Java training recently, I am depressed by the attitude
of the average Java programmer. All they want to do is fulfil management
requirements, no thought of improving themselves and their knowledge and
expertise.  This is in stark contrast to the folks involved with
organizations who are ditching Java in favour of C++/Python or
Scala/Python of which there is a lot happening, hence me getting solid
business doing Python training.

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