Java 8 Officially Released

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.'"

Comments

Damnit

[Stargoat]

Great. A new version of Java. Many of my vendors do not support 7u51. Now we got 8. When I hear someone propose a Java solution, I reach for my firewall.

Re:Damnit

[ahabswhale]

I've been coding in Java for over a dozen years now and I can say without equivocation you're either a liar who's never actually worked with it or you're a fucking troll. Write once, run anywhere is is 100% real and is so common that it's a joke. Many places I've worked at the developer develop on Windows but the code runs on a linux server. At my current place of employment, we code on Macs and deploy on Linux. We never, ever get platform issues. It's rock-fucking-solid. Now, I'm not going to say that it's impossible to have a problem but you have to be a huge moron of a programmer to run into it. For example, building filesystem paths where the path separator is hard-coded. So if you're having a problem, it's you. Learn how to write code.