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Java in 2018: Change is the Only Constant Keynote by Mark Reinhold

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In the past year, we changed Java in three ways that we never have before: We modularized the platform, we removed some components, and we accelerated the pace of new releases. These changes aim to keep Java vibrant in an ever-changing world of competing platforms and new styles of application deployment, whether to the cloud or to app stores. They are disruptive, but they’re not as scary as you may think, and many developers have already adjusted to them.

Mark Reinhold
From Oracle
Mark Reinhold is Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle. His past contributions to the platform include character-stream readers and writers, reference objects, shutdown hooks, the NIO high-performance I/O APIs, library generification, service loaders, and the Jigsaw module system. Mark has held key leadership roles in every Java SE and JDK release since version 1.2, in 1998. He currently leads the JDK Project in the OpenJDK Community, where he also serves on the Governing Board. Mark holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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For python 2/3, it was because the BDFL made a wrong call. But we are past that now, and we collectively learnt something from the debacle, including the BDFL himself:

> As for "Machiavellian Python maintainers", that's real. There have been explicit attempts to apply pain to Python 2.7 users. This has decreased since von Rossum got stuck maintaining Python 2.7 code at Dropbox as his day job.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13020680)

For java 8/9, it was because Brian Goetz still has a boss. We can just compare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0 to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHoRBvt3U6o. Hopefully some lessons were learnt as well.

Oracle contributes about 90% of development (80% of the issues, and almost all new JEPs). Red Hat contributes ~5%, and IBM only 1%. So the recent Red Hat acquisition improves their position a lot, but before that Oracle and IBM paid for the majority of OpenJDK salaries the same way Bill Gates and I combined have billions of dollars.

* https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/building-jdk-11...

* https://youtu.be/wHoRBvt3U6o?t=830

Nov 15, 2018 · 2 points, 0 comments · submitted by javinpaul
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