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Re:Iodine: A full superset of Java with enhancements by Nullabillity on Saturday September 02, 2017 @05:04PM (#15158205)
The opposite, it seems. They got rid of the good parts (the JVM and the industry's best IDE ecosystem), kept the bad (the Java language), added their own lockin-flavoured herbs and spices, and now they have the gall to charge $800/seat for the mess. What a joke.
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Re:Iodine: A full superset of Java with enhancements by dwarfland on Saturday September 02, 2017 @05:31PM (#15158314)
"The opposite, it seems. They got rid of the good parts (the JVM and the industry's best IDE ecosystem), kept the bad (the Java language), added their own lockin-flavoured herbs and spices"

no, that's just entirely false.

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Re:Iodine: A full superset of Java with enhancements by Nullabillity on Saturday September 02, 2017 @07:25PM (#15158795)
So it'll be compatible with Eclipse and IntelliJ, still be compatible with any compliant Java compiler, and still fix Java's syntax warts?

Good luck with that.

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