On Sep 3, 6:37 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <vjosulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your response to criticisms of the lack of significant new > features in Java 7.
I was more so responding to the implication that Sun is not seeking input from the broader community (Sun is part of the Java community of course) when Project Coin offered an unprecedented invitation for people "in the trenches" to participate in evolving the Java language. This invitation to participate always came with the implication of participating *in the work* of the language changes, including writing and analyzing the proposals and developing prototypes. The Java Language Specification has been online for over a decade, Sun's Java compiler has been open sourced for several years, and blog entries have been written describing the many tasks that need to be done to add a language feature to the platform. Sun is not preventing anyone from undertaking the work of exploring a language change. Rather, especially with OpenJDK, we have greatly facilitated such explorations. > It is very important to know that there is a > ready line of communication between the people who control a language > and those who use it. > > Having said that, could you answer this question... > > Which of the new features in Java 7 do you think will do most to > address the current flow of talented programmers away from Java and to > alternative languages (such as Scala, groovy, Python, c#, etc.). Any > why? I would expect programmers to choose the best language and platform for their programming task, which may be Java alone, a mixture of Java and some other language, or just some other language. As the Project Coin changes are by design small, they do not fundamentally change the scope of programs that are tractable to write in Java. In contrast, the modularity language work *does* have the potential to meaningfully expand the set of programs writable (and maintainable) in Java. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
