On Friday, 2 November 2012 07:02:38 UTC+11, fabrizio.giudici wrote: > … I'm a little worried > about a possible proliferation of multiple, incompatible libraries. I'd be > > interested in knowing why Google rejected the patches submitted by > Atlassian (I interpret their comment as the fact that they tried to > provide patches...). >
We – and others – have tried to submit patches to Guava several times and were basically met with a stone-wall, normally various excuses about some internal thing or other, and then Kevin came out and basically said[1] they were never going to take any submissions from outside, so please stop trying. Fugue[2] was written as it became increasingly obvious that any sane functional library code would be deliberately subverted as the Guava team don't like it [3] and have no intention of supporting it except accidentally. BTW Fugue isn't our only functional library code, we have recently added a Promise[4] to atlassian-util-concurrent[5] that gives a much saner interface to the whacky ListenableFuture stuff. I'm somewhat disheartened by this whole thread though, I was really hoping java8 might bring some sanity to functional programming in Java. There seems though to be much investment from some parts of the community in making sure it doesn't happen, and no good reason for it. I have spoken with Brian Goetz, he's a great guy but he alone cannot do all of lambda as well as implement really good standard FP lib. Hopefully they'll get more resources so they can round things out, but there'd be a lot more than just having map/flatMap on Option (think immutable collections for instance). [1] https://plus.google.com/113026104107031516488/posts/ZRdtjTL1MpM [2] https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/fugue/ [3] http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/FunctionalExplained [4] https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-util-concurrent/src/master/src/main/java/com/atlassian/util/concurrent/Promise.java [5] https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-util-concurrent/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/5mlsWD6FnyUJ. 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.
