He's definitely been much more involved that I've ever been :-) On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote:
> Also worth recognising Charlie Nutter's JRuby-related work on > invokedynamic? > > On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 18:51 +0200, Guillaume Laforge wrote: > > Indeed, I still remember meeting John Rose many years ago, the mastermind > > behind invokedynamic, to speak about what a language like Groovy was > > needing in this space :-) > > Hard to really quantify how much we helped, but yet, we did have some > > influence for sure in this area! > > Or for things like the var stuff coming up in Java 10, it's also > something > > I've been advocating to Brian Goetze 3-4 years ago (although he was > really > > not in favor of it back in the day) > > > -- > Russel. > ========================================== > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk > -- Guillaume Laforge Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>