The release date for Java 8 is not the date when Infinispan will baseline to Java 8, there's always a lag. In the case of JGroups, some folks are still on JDK 1.5, would you believe it, and were quite pissed when I baselined JGroups to JDK 6....
On 1/31/13 2:14 PM, Manik Surtani wrote: > On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:47, Bela Ban <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> On 1/31/13 1:37 PM, Manik Surtani wrote: >>> On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Mircea Markus <mmar...@redhat.com >>> <mailto:mmar...@redhat.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> I don't think that encouraging scala code is good purely for >>>> maintenance reasons. If there's a choice, it should be java. Not >>>> saying that learning a new language is not cool - but in practice >>>> people are a bit put off by maintaining Scala code. Its not only >>>> about what the writer of the code prefers as a language: it's more >>>> important what the maintainers of the code >>>> will has to work with. >>> Would such maintainers also be put off by new language features >>> (lambdas) in Java 8 when we (eventually) baseline to it? :-) >> I don't think so. First, this will be a few years off anyway. > Sooner than you think - according to schedule, it is feature-complete (as of > today) and targeted for GA in September. > > http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/ > http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/04/jdk-8-milestone-release-dates > > Java 6 is EOL from next month and Java 7 will be EOL by July 2014. Oracle's > being pretty aggressive with moving Java forward. > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > > >> Second, >> this will not pose cross-language debugging problems. And third, even >> Java+closures is still Java. > What does that mean? It makes an imperative programming language more > functional in style. So yes, while it still has the Java brand, I'd argue > that it is becoming more than that. Best practices, paradigms and patterns > will change and give way to even better ways of doing things. It is, > effectively, learning a new language (as opposed to just a new API). > >> Nice try, advocatus diaboli ! :-) >> >> -- >> Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> infinispan-dev mailing list >> infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev > -- > Manik Surtani > ma...@jboss.org > twitter.com/maniksurtani > > Platform Architect, JBoss Data Grid > http://red.ht/data-grid > > > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev -- Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org) _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
