On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:28:22 +0100, clay <[email protected]> wrote:
What is really wide open about Java is that anyone can write a library, framework, build system, code analyzer, ide, jvm language, etc, and that there is a broader community and culture around that. The Java ecosystem has a really strong track record of success stories: Ant, Maven, JUnit, Scala, Groovy, Lucene, Hadoop, eclipse, IntelliJ, Jenkins, etc.
I pretty much agree with clay - while everybody can disagree on whether the trade-off in the open-closed mix choosed by Oracle for the Java-language-and-VM (for sure we live in a sub-optimal world and as many things it could be better), I think that the most valuable heritage from Sun has been the community and the culture. Of course it wasn't exclusively a merit of Sun, open source existed on its own, but the corporate contributed in giving it a boost. If I think of the common bag of tools, libraries and frameworks that I use, well we get used to that, but it's a very high number of pieces from different sources that fit together and give us a huge number of combinations to pick from. This is somewhat extraordinary and it's one of the things that keep the Java success, in spite of the language slowly evolving.
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