Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

Posted Jan 15, 2020 19:54 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3 by nim-nim
Parent article: Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

Google is moving towards Kotlin which runs fine on the JVM8. There are also third parties maintaining JVM forks (Amazon is one with Coretto project). Java will be fine.

Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

Posted Jan 16, 2020 9:09 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link] (1 responses)

That means some more years fighting on the governance of Java, on what is a real Java implementation, what is not, what APIs can/should be used or not, etc.

Who wants to deal with this crap forever? Easier to port to another language and let someone else fatten lawyers.

Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

Posted Jan 16, 2020 16:20 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Who cares? OpenJDK is under GPL so Amazon can freely maintain its fork. They just need to avoid calling it "Java" to avoid trademark issues.