Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project

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Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @02:21PM from the as-sung-by-the-bad-brains dept.

talawahdotnet writes "Gavin King of Red Hat/Hibernate/Seam fame recently unveiled the top secret project that he has been working on over the past two years, a new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise. The project came out of hiding without much fanfare or publicity at QCon Beijing in a keynote titled 'The Ceylon Project — the next generation of Java language?'"

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Ceylon? by ArcherB · 2011-04-12 14:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Am I the only one who read, "Cylon"?
Do they have a plan?

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1. Re:Ceylon? by telekon · 2011-04-12 14:33 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Am I the only one who read, "Cylon"?
  Do they have a plan?
  The 'Cylon' project requires a meta-cognitive processor, not a VM.
  Although, I had a similar experience reading about the 'Dalvik' VM... Wha... the DALEK VM?
  Finally, it's Red Hat. They have no Plan. The One True God has no frakking patience for RHEL (and neither do I).
  
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2. Re:Ceylon? by steveha · 2011-04-12 14:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Am I the only one who read, "Cylon"?
  You are not the only one. My first thought was, "I hope they hire Tricia Helfer to advertise this."
  steveha
  
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3. Re:Ceylon? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-12 16:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I *am* from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and yes, Ceylon is to tea what Java is to coffee. Both are islands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_production_in_Sri_Lanka
4. Re:Ceylon? by Culture20 · 2011-04-12 16:53 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Am I the only one who read, "Cylon"? Do they have a plan?
  No, it's a by-your-command line language. Totally open ended.
No need to duplicate work by MrEricSir · 2011-04-12 14:29 · Score: 5, Funny

We already have a Java killer; his name is Larry Ellison.

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1. Re:No need to duplicate work by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-12 15:26 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.
  Poetic.
Re:C#/Mono similar? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-12 14:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Two words: Oracle.
What's the second word?
Re:C#/Mono similar? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-12 14:56 · Score: 3, Funny

"FuckingBullshitAss Oracle" is implied whenever somebody says "Oracle".
Re:C#/Mono similar? by Megaweapon · 2011-04-12 15:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Two words:
Oracle.
What's the second word?
Lawyers.

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Re:Another One! Just what we need by garyebickford · 2011-04-12 16:18 · Score: 3, Funny

Don't forget all the other important languages!
* brainfuck
* whitespace
* piet
* INTERCAL
* false
* befunge
* malbolge
and, of course (last but not least!)
* LOLCODE

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Ceylon:Tea::Java:Coffee by rsborg · 2011-04-12 16:34 · Score: 1, Funny

So I guess Redhat is going to be popular with some folks in the right-wing of US political spectrum?

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