briansfrank

Date/Time APIs are a core part of Fantom

http://fantom.org/doc/docLang/DateTime.html

One problem with infrastructure technology (programming languages, databases, IDEs, etc) is that all of the above is expected to be available for free by developers. So there is little incentive to develop a business around infrastructure technology. Sure people still do it, but not like the 80s when people still paid for PLs, IDEs, databases,etc. These markets have been drastically devalued by open source.

In Fantom we model DateTimes with both an absolute time in nanosecond ticks and a relative timezone:

http://fantom.org/doc/docLang/DateTime.html#dateTime

Works great for dealing with timestamps in absolute terms, but also when you need to deal with local time.

See Fantom - http://fantom.org/

And it has same performance as Java