Java 8 is released !

[Venkat Subramaniam]

Congrats teams, a very exciting day. A big step for Java, a giant step for the developers, IMO.

And I will join the list of those "doubters who eat their words." I was quite skeptic and was one of those guys picketing that 
this is not going to matter. Once I started digging in, I was pleasantly surprised. What drew me in was not lambdas but
how it was implemented under the hood and also the lazy evaluations (Streams and all).

The team deserves all the patting in the back. Congratulations again.

Now go out and celebrate, take the night off :)

Venkat

On Mar 18, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>