Nobody has actually claimed it would or should jump ahead of java. Granted, at this moment it is by the admission of the presentation only a vaporlang, but given they will pull te compiler and library part off, this might actually come to be rather nice language to work with...
Now for the 2 years - I assume it took ~2 years for them to arrive at the language features balance described in the presentations - one does not contrive such a holistic vision of te language features as such in a dream overnight... However, it is one thing to brainstorm a set of language features, and another to write a compiler and a standard library for that language. These two are a HUGE undertaking and I have my doubts how much splash will it be able to make once the language has been finished - world will have moved on, Scala will have gained more momentum and Java will (hopefully) get it's closures and modules and whatnot by then. We'll see... -- 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.
