Welcome again to everybody! Happy Lunar New Year. Make yourself at home. Go ahead and stand on that inconspicuous floor tile over there. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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any coding comrades here?
Larry ellison donated $15 million dollars to Israel military. Now i have serious concerns regarding oracle and jvm. What are your thoughts on that?
He’s a billionaire capitalist, I’d be surprised if he didn’t fund at least one terrorist organization. If you need to use the JVM, OpenJDK may be developed in part by Oracle, but at least it’s open-source
but there is still a lot of oracle influence in it related to language design etc. even in openjdk
in Java, yes, but you can also use a language that isn’t designed by Oracle (e.g. Clojure), even if it shares some common features
i currently use scala with openjdk (even scala logo is changed due to the war, it’s so cringe). why can’t they keep politics out of this?
of course rich hickey is great.