"Paul D. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sun has announced that their next language release, Java 7, which was > expected in 2008 will now occur sometime in 2010. The big changes that > were expected were the additions of closures and properties. Neither of > those seems likely now. The focus for the next release now seems to be > modularity, but it looks to me like it's one of those "everybody thinks > it's a good idea, but nobody wants to do it the same way" kind of > problems, which was the big problem with closures. > > To be fair, they have released a significant update, Java 6 update 10, and > a new scripting language, Java FX Script, built on the JVM. But it just > seems like the language and the community have gotten so big and > unwieldly that it can't evolve any more. Like everyone else, Sun is > looking for "the next Java". > > Of course, participants in this forum know that "the next Java" is already > here... > > Paul >
Java was dead to me the moment I discovered C# (which was before I came across D). And even before that, I considered Java a suitable replacement for C++ *only* in occasional circumstances. Ever since then, Java's enourmous popularity has just sickened me. Although, to it's credit, there are certainly worse languages in heavy use (PHP, VBScript).
