I always figured that anyone who wanted lambdas that much would be sailing the choppy JVM waters on a differently lingual boat by now. It's not as though you even have to change your ops infrastructure or much of your tooling to do so.
(hint: rename scala.jar/clojure.jar/groovy.jar/whatever.jar to apache-closures.jar, release your project binaries as you always did. Don't make a song and dance about it, it's easier to ask forgiveness than to request permission) Jigsaw on the other hand... That means distinctions like SE/ME can be done away with, long-deprecated code can finally be removed, startup time, download time, and memory foot print can be reduced, etc. It makes Java far more suitable for running on something like the Raspberry Pi. These are cross-cutting concerns that benefit all languages on the Java platform. Defender methods and method handles are also just plain awesome. Even without lambdas, I'd fully expect some powerful optimisations to be realised on top of those two. On 30 August 2012 15:57, Thomas Matthijs <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Ricky Clarkson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I want my lambdas now and I'm in a job where using non-Java languages > > will be a difficult sell. The earlier the release the better for me. > > > > I've seen classpath hell exactly once, actually in a current project, > > and plan to deal with it in a different way - attempting to > > find/create a combination of libraries that don't have version > > conflicts, and where that is not possible, moving tasks out of the > > same JVM process. > > > > The other benefit would be JVM startup time, which is less and less an > > issue each year as machines get faster and Java doesn't get bigger. > > I'd like to see the startup time be improved further, but lambdas will > > affect me more than cutting down startup from 5 seconds to 1. > > > > > I agree fully, jigsaw won't fix any problem i currently have, lambdas > on the other hand would be very beneficial > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
