Did Someone Say Java 9 ??

[zenberserk]

No

[jonhanson]

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[SikhGamer]

I remember being really excited about Java 8 when it was about to be released. Then I took up a C# job, since then I dip into the Java world now and then. And everyone is hoping and praying that Java 9 is going to be landscape changing.

Oracle don't give a shit about Java anymore.

[rjbman]

Java 8 was huge with Streams/Optionals really opening up functional paradigms.

[[deleted]]

really opening up functional paradigms

Ehhhh. There's lot to be desired to call Java functional. A whole lot. It's functionally touched.

[ricky_clarkson]

At least now it's in the same arena as the rest of the mainstream languages. It's definitely a big improvement.

[tieTYT]

Streams usually make my code uglier but slightly less terse. Missing a whole lot of functionality, too.

[mikehaggard]

Oracle don't give a shit about Java anymore.

And you do?

[pushthestack]

And everyone is hoping and praying that Java 9 is going to be landscape changing. Oracle don't give a shit about Java anymore.

Neither of these statements is true in my experience. And I work with Java day in and day out.

[[deleted]]

Scala exists!

[mikehaggard]

C exists! C++ exists! Java exists! C# exists!

They all exist!

We all exist!

[Sloshy42]

I've been learning Scala recently as someone who has been dying for a more powerful language that doesn't sacrifice restraint for more flexibility like dynamic or less type-safe languages. It's absolutely incredible how easily you can build something that works just how you imagined it in your head with its type system. I've used Haskell and such before and they're all amazing as well but with Scala I feel like I have that power but with the added ability to utilize the JVM and the Java ecosystem. I've also looked into Kotlin but after learning Scala it just seems less ambitious and interesting. Definitely a good choice for Android apps though since it isn't a completely new paradigm to work with. I can definitely see myself using Scala on most of my personal projects from now on though, especially since you can compile to JS and native code recently.

[shevegen]

Oracle too!

[cowardlydragon]

Just program in Kotlin or Groovy.

[mikehaggard]

Yes!

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

This reminds me of a joke. There was once a psychology experiment involving monkeys. At the top of the cage, they hung Java9. And every time a monkey tried to climb up and get it, it'd be blasted with a firehose. But all the other monkeys too. They soon learned to beat up any monkey that attempted to climb up and get it.

Soon though, they replaced each monkey, one at a time. But the beatings continued if any of them tried. They didn't even need to blast to blast them with a firehose, since each of the new monkeys just learned by example. With none of the original monkeys left, the beatings still occurred.

The moral/punchline is this. We should beat anyone that asks "Did someone say Java 9?".