I'm with Cédric here, Sun and Oracle alike both had to tow the line for their most profitable support contract holders, investment banks.
For their part, the banks largely showed a level of risk aversion that makes Beaker from the Muppets look like Chuck Norris - paying *vast* sums of money to ensure that nothing moves much beyond 1.3 (in case something broke) except for *critical* bug/security fixes. As a result, the language is largely stagnant and most improvements to Java have happened within the JVM - which is now so good that a great many other languages want to run on top of it. My personal feeling is that Oracle should capitalise on this, and work to add features to the JVM to support Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Mirah, etc. Playing to their strengths instead of playing catch-up with languages that are better seen as collaborators and not competition. On 2 October 2012 17:00, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Simon Ochsenreither < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> “what's the most minimal thing to do to prevent the feature gap to the >> CLR from getting even more embarrassing”. > > > The CLR is hardly ever a consideration in Java directions. The main > concerns are much more along the lines of offering as much added value > while preserving backward compatibility, two objectives that are, sadly, > very strongly at odds with each other. > > -- > Cédric > > -- Kevin Wright mail: [email protected] gtalk / msn : [email protected] quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright google+: http://gplus.to/thecoda <[email protected]> twitter: @thecoda vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright steam: kev_lee_wright "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- 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.
