I can handle breaking changes if they are community driven; I will not accept excuses for something that is maintained by a large corporation that has the resources and staff to prevent such issues. Oracle is rotting the fish from the head.
C'mon. The JVM's problems have such wide effects because so many people use it; probably more than all other non-native platforms combined. The JVM is still the most performant, best tested and most stable application platform out there. For real heavy duty applications, there is still no true alternative for the JVM. Certainly not a better one.
Good point. Do you happen to know of a list of managed native languages? All that really comes to mind is C# (the CLI really) and Go. Tried googling for a list of such languages but couldn't find any using terms "list of native managed languages" (without quotes).
http://searchhub.org/dev/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anyt...
I can handle breaking changes if they are community driven; I will not accept excuses for something that is maintained by a large corporation that has the resources and staff to prevent such issues. Oracle is rotting the fish from the head.