More information on Dash <http://markmail.org/message/uro3jtoitlmq6x7t>. I'm not seeing Gilad credited at all in this message, though.
-- Cédric On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM, opinali <opin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, September 9, 2011 12:34:10 PM UTC-4, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:38 AM, opinali <opi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> if Google and Oracle don't reach a reasonable agreement over Java, Google >>> obviously needs a plan to move away from Java. >> >> Come on, now, this makes no sense at all. >> >> > Well, suppose just for the sake of argument that Oracle wins big time the > patent suit and all Android devices have to pay a significant license fee to > Oracle? I know that a new language alone is meaningless; if it still binds > to the same APIs and VM, it wouldn't dodge any patents. But add a new, > unified VM that can run both Java and the new language just as well and > seamlessly (see Oracle's unified Java + Javascript VM research). Give to the > new language bindings to all existing APIs to make adoption easy and > gradual, but also build a next generation of frameworks that starts with the > modern and unencumbered android.* packages - that's where you already find > most of the value of Android already - but improves them with features from > the new language and VM. Then you can build a relatively smooth migration > path to a new SDK. > > Now the irony is that Android has already made JavaME obsolete, and if > Google is forced to go "Plan B" like above and succeeds, that would make the > rest of Java obsolete in the mobile space. And I don't see this being any > good for Oracle in the long term. > > </wild-speculation> ;-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/YjQ4ZS1X6WoJ. > > 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. > -- 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.
