If I need third-party tools to validate my dependency graph at compile time and at runtime to ensure "reliable configuration" then why do I need Jigsaw at all? That's the current state of affairs with Java already, Jigsaw provides no value.
> Plus the entire development was done in the open, in an open source project with an active mailing list
Ostensibly. There is a difference between having an open mailing list (where people could give feedback and get a superficial thank you before getting ignored) and a readonly repository and actual open development. Quite frankly I find it telling that in 2017 we have to stress that there was and open mailing list and readonly repository. The most important thing, the decision process, was completely intransparent and all Oracle/Sun internal.
> and frequent prototypes.
Which weren't useful because none of the frameworks, libraries and tools would support it.
