Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
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Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
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Re: Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
#2Could anyone elaborate on which sections of code weren't open sourced originally? That'd be interesting to hear.
Re: Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
#3Could anyone elaborate on which sections of code weren't open sourced originally? That'd be interesting to hear.
In the Sun release in May of last year, it was something like 4-5% of the code and most of it had to do with graphics stuff: font & image rasterizing, etc. which makes sense. I think that's why most of the developers didn't care much one way or the other.
Re: Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
#4Could anyone elaborate on which sections of code weren't open sourced originally? That'd be interesting to hear.
Re: Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
#5I thing Java took a wrong turn with 1.5 and especially 1.6. Introduced new complexities to the language, without adressing its main drawbacks: verbosity, and lack of proper closures, and functions being first class citizens
Re: Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
#6Yes, lots of people care. Just because it's not trendy to program in java and it doesn't get as much hype as ruby/python/etc, doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
Re: Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
#7I thing Java took a wrong turn with 1.5 and especially 1.6. Introduced new complexities to the language, without adressing its main drawbacks: verbosity, and lack of proper closures, and functions being first class citizens
Java 7 should add closures. And in the mean time, most of the times you would be using closures, you can use anonymous inner classes.
Re: Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
#8I thing Java took a wrong turn with 1.5 and especially 1.6. Introduced new complexities to the language, without adressing its main drawbacks: verbosity, and lack of proper closures, and functions being first class citizens
Java 7 should add closures. And in the mean time, most of the times you would be using closures, you can use anonymous inner classes.
Yeah, closures and anonymous inner classes would really redeem Java in the eyes of the masses.
Java is going, going, ...
Re: Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Java 7 should add closures. And in the mean time, most of the times you would be using closures, you can use anonymous inner classes.
Yeah, closures and anonymous inner classes would really redeem Java in the eyes of the masses. Java is going, going, ...
i think what tomjen was referencing was that java already has anonymous inner classes.
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