My favorite enterprise language seems to be running out of good ideas to implement.
From this post detailing the upcoming language features of Java 7, here is the list of completed features to date:
- Language support for collections
- Automatic Resource Management
- Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation (the “diamond” operator)
- Underscores in numeric literals
- Strings in switch
- Binary literals
- Simplified Varargs Method Invocation
Now, keep in mind, usually the most critical, important, or difficult features are implemented first. At least if you’re trying to get something out that is meaningful. But seriously, this is what Sun thought was the most important? Continue reading “It’s Official: Java Has Jumped The Shark”