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Re:Oracle and the fall of Java EE by KevinEldon on Friday July 08, 2016 @12:34PM (#12056752)
Oracle pays very senior engineers and innovators to create a stable and still evolving ecosystem. Java is slow and steady. The JVM enables other innovators to explore and create languages radically different than Java. I am very thankful for Oracle's stewardship of Java and the JVM.
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Re:Oracle and the fall of Java EE by filereaper on Friday July 08, 2016 @01:06PM (#12057003)
On the topic of stewardship, I highly recommend this talk by Brian Goetz titled "Stewardship: the Sobering Parts" [1]

Brian goes about how important compatibility is for the language, the concept not throwing customers code under the bus by bringing breaking incompatibilities. (ie Python 2 --> 3)

Java has its warts and isn't "cool" but I respect their design decisions.

[1] https://youtu.be/2y5Pv4yN0b0?t=1578

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Re:Oracle and the fall of Java EE by KevinEldon on Friday July 08, 2016 @01:46PM (#12057340)
Thanks for the link. I haven't watched that talk, but I will, and I was thinking of Brian when I wrote my comment. His work and he work of others on the Java team is important, serious, and hard.
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