Java 8 is released !

[Zhong Yu]

Kudos. This is a great gift to Java programmers. The community is
gonna be very busy building new toys with these new tools.

Zhong Yu

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Dr Heinz M. Kabutz
<heinz at javaspecialists.eu> wrote:
> Brilliant, thanks for your hard work.  Whenever I look at code nowadays I
> see places where Java 8 features would have helped.
>
> Heinz
>
> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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