Another look at Java’s Health

Multi-threading is too hard in Java … should that be addressed or should a newer language supplant it?  A recent article suggested that Java was too low level to efficiently crank out web sites.  This one laments the need to raise the level of abstraction for things like concurrent code execution.

Neal Gafter’s blog: Is the Java Language Dying?

Josh may well be right. If so, we should place Java on life support and move our development to new languages such as Scala. The fork-join framework itself is an example of higher-order functional programming, which Josh argues is a style that we should neither encourage nor support in Java. Is it really time to move on?

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