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0 pointsjcelerier6y ago0 comments

> but as an example I think that Java took the wrong way.

I wonder what is the right way then ? Java is apparently too fast for you, and yet it gets improvements so slowly that it is getting its marketshare eaten by other JVM languages moving much faster.

If it was even slower it could as well be put directly next to the dusty COBOL and RPG boxes in the IBM attic.

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GTP6y ago

I think that language designers should release a new version when they actually have something new and not because somebody decided that there has to be a new version every x months. Also I think that the popularity of other JVM languages, eg. Kotlin, derives not from their quick releases, but from the fact that they observed what programmers didn't like about Java and designed the language from the start keeping in mind those problems and addreesing them right from the beginning.

saagarjha6y ago

This is recent, though. The releases of Java 1-7 were fairly slow and conservative.

pjmlp6y ago

Dusty Cobol?!?

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv...

The lastest standard revision is from 2018, and you can even do OOP if you feel so inclined.

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