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Eclipse Launches New Programming Language

Posted by timothy on from the onslaught-of-new-languages dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Eclipse has launched a website for a new JVM language, called Xtend. It's built with Eclipse's Xtext and compiles directly to Java code, similar to what CoffeeScript does to Javascript. It's not just an announcement but it's already there and useable, including a very feature-rich Eclipse integration."

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  1. Re:Why? Because! by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "We saw what you did with your classes, so we added some more classes to your classes to hide your classes because we have more class."

    "We saw what you did with your syntax so we added some more syntax to your syntax to hide your syntax because we are more syntaxy."

    "We saw that java still sucks so we added some more suckiness to java's suckiness to hide java's suckiness because our suckiness sucks less ... sort of ... maybe ..."

    "... because our next step is to distract you from our new suckiness by adding more xml ..."

  2. Re:Yet Another C Variant (YACV) by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can we please get C with sane declarator syntax? And some form of generic programming? And function literals? And a better-working separate compilation model that doesn't require people to wrap their entire interface declaration in #ifdef/#endif?

    Then, yes, we can just program in C.