No Closures for Java 7

Friday, January 9. 2009

Just read the InfoQ news article about the updated Java 7 roadmap.

No closures for Java 7!

This was just due to the fact that the folks are not able to agree on a solution, while Closures are a very very old concept already used in Smalltalk (Blocks) and are an essential concept for modern dynamic languages like Groovy or Ruby.

To me this is prove that either the JSR process needs a major overhaul urgently to become more flexible or the end of Java is near.


This pessimistic opinion also backed up by the reactions mentioned in this news article:


Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under Java.
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