CFV: New Project: Babylon

[Mikael Vidstedt]

Vote: yes

Cheers,
Mikael

> On Oct 11, 2023, at 5:02 PM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> 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.
> 
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> 
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> 
> 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