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Java 8 Officially Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the gluten-free,-no-trans-fats dept.

darthcamaro writes "Oracle today officially released Java 8, nearly two years after Java 7, and after much delay. The new release includes a number of critical new features, including Lambda expressions and the new Nashorn JavaScript engine. Java 8, however, is still missing at least one critical piece that Java developers have been asking for, for years. 'It's a pity that some of the features like Jigsaw were dropped as modularity, runtime dependencies and interoperability are still a huge problem in Java,' James Donelan, vice president of engineering at MuleSoft said. 'In fact this is the one area where I still think Java has a long way to go.'"

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  1. Does it make Minecraft run faster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably the most important question in the mind of the general public.

    1. Re:Does it make Minecraft run faster? by viperidaenz · · Score: 4, Funny

      java.lang.Thread

  2. A Javascript Engine in the JVM!? by Stormy+Dragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Crap, I already have a hard enough time getting non-programmers to understand that Java and JavaScript aren't the same thing.

    1. Re:A Javascript Engine in the JVM!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Same for me, but it was with programmers.

    2. Re:A Javascript Engine in the JVM!? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

      Crap, I already have a hard enough time getting non-programmers to understand that Java and JavaScript aren't the same thing.

      Javascript is just Java written in cursive - duh.

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      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .