CFV: New Project: Babylon

[Vicente Romero]

vote: yes

On 10/11/23 19:02, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of a new Project, Babylon, with me as the Lead
> and the Compiler and Core Libraries Groups as sponsors.
>
> Babylon's primary goal will be to extend the reach of Java to foreign
> programming models such as SQL, differentiable programming, machine
> learning models, and GPUs. Babylon will achieve this with an enhancement to
> reflective programming in Java, called code reflection.
>
> For further details, please see the call for discussion [1].
>
> I propose that the initial Reviewers of this Project include Mourad Abbay,
> Maurizio Cimadamore, Gary Frost, Ian Graves, Adam Sotona, and Sandhya
> Viswanathan.
>
> Votes are due by 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 26 Oct 2023.
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [2] are eligible to vote on this motion. Votes
> must be cast in the open on the discuss list. Replying to this message is
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>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [3].
>
> Paul.
>
> [1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/discuss/2023-September/006226.html
> [2] https://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [3] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote