There’s a wide sense of lament since Oracle has taken over Sun and their intellectual property, including MySQL, Java, Solaris and their hardware sales business.  I’d say the average observer of this process might use the terms “slow moving train wreck”.  I doubt they are far off on this one.

Read more on How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Axis of Evil (Oracle)…

evil empire · Google · Java · Microsoft · oracle

In Part One of this post, we discussed the Great Concurrency Problem and the promise of Go in taking the throne from Java.  Today, I show why Go isn’t going to get us there.

Read more on Google’s Go Isn’t Getting Us Anywhere, Part 2…

C++ · concurrency · go · Google · Java · parallelism · threads

There’s buzz in the air about Google’s new language Go.  Naturally, I was excited hearing about it.  After all, Google has produced so many interesting tools and frameworks to date there’s almost automatic interest in any new Google software release.  But this wasn’t just a product, this was a Google language release.  My programmer brain pricked up immediately.

Read more on Google’s Go Isn’t Getting Us Anywhere, Part 1…

C++ · concurrency · go · Google · Java · parallelism · threads

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:

1. Language support for collections
2. Automatic Resource Management
3. Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation (the “diamond” operator)
4. Underscores in numeric literals
5. Strings in switch
6. Binary literals
7. 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? Read more on It’s Official: Java Has Jumped The Shark…

fonzie · Java · jumped the shark