+1 indeed

Le 1 févr. 2018 21:34, "Eugene Kirpichov" <kirpic...@google.com> a écrit :

> Reducing dependency on Guava in favor of something Java-standard sounds
> great, +1.
>
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:53 AM Reuven Lax <re...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Unless there's something that doesn't work in Java 8 future, +1 to
>> migrating.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Kenneth Knowles <k...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Luke, Thomas, and I had some in-person discussions about the use of Java
>>> 8 futures and Guava futures in the portability support code. I wanted to
>>> bring our thoughts to the dev list for feedback.
>>>
>>> As background:
>>>
>>>  - Java 5+ "Future" lacks the main purpose of future, which is async
>>> chaining.
>>>  - Guava introduced ListenableFuture to do real future-oriented
>>> programming
>>>  - Java 8 added CompletionStage which is more-or-less the expected
>>> interface
>>>
>>> It is still debatable whether Java got it right [1]. But since it is
>>> standardized, doesn't need to be shaded, etc, it is worth trying to just
>>> use it carefully in the right ways. So we thought to propose that we
>>> migrate most uses of Guava futures to Java 8 futures.
>>>
>>> What do you think? Have we missed an important problem that would make
>>> this a deal-breaker?
>>>
>>> Kenn
>>>
>>> [1] e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38744943/
>>> listenablefuture-vs-completablefuture#comment72041244_39250452 and such
>>> discussions are likely to occur whenever you bring it up with someone who
>>> cares a lot about futures :-)
>>>
>>
>>

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