Java needs an overhaul

This is the sort of overhaul I'm talking about. Adding closures or not in the next version of Java is just a new coat of paint on a burning barn. Clean out the damn libs and make the language cleaner and leaner again is what's needed. I'd love to go back to the days of knowing that I only had to think about the JVM to roll out an app on various platforms and/or servers. (中略)But unless I know that I won't have to deal with libraries that barf on the smallest XML problem, or the need to write 200 lines of code to do simple Date calulations, it's not going to happen. For me or for many other developers out there.

Java needs an overhaul - Russell Beattie

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