Java 8 is released !

[Brian Goetz]

Thanks Remi and others for all the kind words.  This has been an 
exciting journey!

At the risk of patting ourselves on the back, I'm very pleased with what 
we've accomplished here.  When I started this project four years ago, 
the general sentiment in the community was fairly negative on the 
prospects for Java's future (or Oracle's ability to be a good steward 
for Java).  While my primary goal was building the Java that I wanted to 
program in -- while remaining true to Java's core principles -- I must 
confess that my secondary goal was also making all the doubters have to 
eat their words.  I'm pretty happy today on both counts.

So many people helped make Lambda what it is; I can't possibly list them 
all, but I appreciate all of their contributions, from the members of 
the JSR-335 Expert Group [1] to my teammates at Oracle who contributed 
to the design and implementation [2] to the many folks in the community 
who participated in shaping this vision.

We've accomplished something really great here.  Now, let's go out and 
spread the word!



[1] IBM (Dan Heidinga), Google (Josh Bloch, Kevin Bourrillion), 
JetBrains (Andrey Breslav, Anna Kozlova), Red Hat (David Lloyd), 
Goldman-Sachs (Vladimir Zakharov, Don Raab), Doug Lea, Bob Lee, Remi 
Forax, and Sam Pullara.

[2] Dan Smith, Maurizio Cimadamore, Vicente Romero, Joe Darcy, Alex 
Buckley, Joel Franck, Robert Field, Jon Gibbons, Mike Duigou, Paul 
Sandoz, Henry Jen, Mark Reinhold, Guy Steele, Jean-Baptiste Tristan, 
John Rose, Karen Kinnear, Keith McGuigan, Sergey Kuksenko, and Aleksey 
Shipilev.

Apologies if these lists are incomplete (as they almost surely are!)


On 3/18/2014 3:11 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
> As you all know, Java 8 is now released with lambdas as a preeminent
> feature.
>
> I want to personally thank every each of you that have contributed to
> that list taking time to read the different drafts, test the betas,
> report bugs, etc.
> We all together have created something amazing, something huge,
> something monumental as Mark said.
>
> I will never meet all of you in person, but please don't hesitate to
> come to me saying that you are one of us,
> I own you a beer, at least.
>
> thank you,
> Rémi
>
>