AMA About the Java Language — Brian Goetz and Nicolai Parlog

Interested in where Java is going, or the motivation for some of its past choices? Brian Goetz, who lead the evolution of the Java Language, joined by guest facilitator Nicolai Parlog, is here to answer your questions!

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[poyge]

Brian have so mature way to see things

[CoderGrammer]

These discussions are gold! Thanks for uploading.

[hosmanadam]

23:32 "Doing something weird should be plan B"
Much wisdom hiding in plain sight

[aum]

OCaml is the only other language I know that is also implementing concurrency without async/await: it’s part of the upcoming version 5 (aka multi-core OCaml)

[ee.kv]

What is it on Brian's background?

[bigdlamz]

No more Mono, Flux & other weird programming constructs

[Dragiux]

35:07 thats how i felt when you permitted records and var into the language

[dobrin.ivanov]

Reactive is a mistake, yeah, this is not java it is the language of the chains or the chained language :P

[DarthSivius]

type classes are older than Java, so there was the opportunity to add them to Java. I also don't get how you can like Haskell and also say Scala is just trying to be a better Java. Scala is way more than a better Java. For instance, it has type classes.

[JanVissers]

Reactive programming going the way of the dodo. Could this see for miles ahead!