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Gavin King unveils Red Hat's top secret Java Killer/Successor: The Ceylon Project

Posted by tuxchick on · 7 comments
The Brain Dump; By Marc Richards 		Mail this story
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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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tuxchick Story submitter ·
....with the corpses of countless Java killers.
Steven_Rosenber ·
I finally weaned myself from my final Java-powered, browser-delivered app. Yeah!
gus3 ·
I suppose C# is one of the failed attempts to displace Java.
dinotrac ·
gus3 --

It requires a generous definition of failed, though.

It's certainly failed to be cross platform, but is very big in Microsoft shops.
dthacker ·
Hey, cool! Another language that will have lots of various versions conflicting with each other on the corporate desktop! I'm thrilled!
helios ·
As long as I don't have to memorize a million rules for double quotes, I might take another stab at it.
hkwint ·
Yeah, double quotes are a PITA. Yesterday I did them in DOS-Batch on Windows 7, once I did it in AWK and once in Python, and none of them make much sense.

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