News could hardly get more exciting than this, for a programming language aficionado! There is now a JEP 286 for Local-Variable Type Inference with status "Candidate". And a request for feedback by Brian Goetz, which I would love to invite you to participate in: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/platform-jep-discuss/2016-March/000037.html Please do so, the survey remains open only from March … Continue reading Java 10’s new Local-Variable Type Inference
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Top 10 Ceylon Language Features I Wish We Had In Java
What does one do when Hibernate is "finished" and feature complete and one needs new challenges? Right. One creates a new JVM language called Ceylon. On November 12, 2013, Ceylon 1.0.0 was finally released and we congratulate the whole team at Red Hat for their achievements in what looks like a very promising new JVM … Continue reading Top 10 Ceylon Language Features I Wish We Had In Java