nobbis writes "Java 8 Early Access Release Candidate Available. Early Access Release Candidate 2 was made available for download last week. Lambda Functions and a new Date Time API are major features of Java 8, with some lesser known performance enhancements, which are discussed by Drew Stephens in his blog Atomic Number Implementation. Oracle's head Java Evangelist Simon Ritter gives a run through of new features in this presentation to the Virtual Java User Group. Project Jigsaw has been delayed again and is now scheduled for release with Java 9."
The bug report looks healthy and Java 8 is due for release on March 17th -- St. Patrick's Day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:59AM
In my personal experience, java applications on the client machine (I'm thinking here mainly of jitsi and minecraft, as they're what I have the most recent personal experience with) tend to have issues with stability after a few days of runtime, and can wreak havoc in that regard much more than any other particular language. I can't say I have a strong understanding of the lower level goings on here, and it's entirely possible that it's just a matter of poorly written java being a bit of an epidemic (much like the issue with php), but it amounts to my having a bit of an aversion to using java when I can avoid it. That it provides a particularly easy malware vector into non-windows environments (write once, run anywhere!) doesn't exactly give it any added preference either.