Java 8 is released !

[Jin Mingjian]

Add my congratulations here:) Do not mention "toys"! I am truly busy
building new "gaint" with Java 8:)

Jin


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Ali Ebrahimi <ali.ebrahimi1781 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>