Java 8 is released !

[Ali Ebrahimi]

Congratulations, thanks for your hard work. This is latest and best event
in my latest days of old year. Friday starts Iranian's new year and you
actually gave awesome new year gift for me. Thanks again and have good time.



On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:05 AM, 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
>>
>>
>>
>