On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 15:02 -0500, Ian wrote: > Regarding Java, I don't agree that we should adopt some other > programming > language because it's "cool" and Java isn't. In fact "coolness" is > perhaps > the worst possible basis on which to select a programming language! > > Java is still the world's most popular programming language, and > while it > somewhat stagnated under Sun, Oracle is making progress again, Java8 > is the > most significant release since Java5. I think Java is still the > right bet > for these reasons.
Just clarifying so that we're all on the same page: We've always prioritized other things over paying our technical debt: Freenet is mostly java 1.4 ... despite us setting the compat level to 1.6 We're very far from a java8 codebase Florent
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