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<font size="4" face="monospace">During the Java 8 days many of these
found their way to Stack Overflow, and several of us (myself and
Stuart especially) invested in creating good answers to these, to
the point where eventually several folks in the community were
able to start answering these rationale questions. There were a
few folks who were pretty adept at ferreting out details from the
lists and posting pointers. This worked really well, and the
effort of this dwindled over time. But then AI ate (or threatened
to eat) Stack Overflow, and it became a less effective filter for
these questions.<br>
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I don't love being in the position of having to say "yes, we've
talked about this plenty", since it's unreasonable to expect
everyone to have read the entire history of all the various places
where these things are discussed. So I would be happy to see some
folks index some of the past discussions, as it increases the
value of answering these questions (because more people are likely
to see it.) But it's definitely work.<br>
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There's an OpenJDK wiki but which is mostly abandoned. There is
the amber-docs repo which gets published to
`openjdk.org/projects/amber`, which is probably a better place to
put it, and people can contribute via PRs. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/12/2024 5:18 AM, Magnus Ihse
Bursie wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:033d2a24-3c6c-45f0-ac53-8bcb317322a5@oracle.com">I've
been lurking in this list for quite some while. It's very
interesting too see all creative proposal, and always very
refreshing to read the well-formulated replies (often by Brian,
but many others contribute as well) on why this-or-that is not
feasible.
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I think the list archive contains a treasure trove of information
about possible language features and ways Java development could
have gone, but did not -- and with good explanations of why that
was not as good idea as it looked in the first place.
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However, this treasure is hard to find. If you follow the list,
you see it pop up from time to time, but if you don't, there is no
easy way to get to this. This tend to lead to some popular ideas
being suggested over and over again (perhaps not as much here, as
on other channels, like Reddit).
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I think it would be great if these suggestion, together with the
reasoning provided for not implementing it, were collected on a
web site. The wiki seems to be a good place, but there are of
course many other possible solutions.
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I have contemplated doing this myself for quite some time, going
through the mail archive and extracting the relevant discussions,
but I always have more pressing things to do, and it is not likely
I will ever be able to do it. So I'm throwing this idea up in the
air. I realize many other are in the same situation as I am, but
perhaps there are some interested readers out there in the
community that has more time on their hands and that can help with
such a task?
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/Magnus
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