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Who cares what Miguel de Icaza writes about?

I think it's important to be able to process outside criticism here. This guy has single handedly (well, with the help of the bazaar) built a VM that rivals more than a decade of work inside Sun. Now, we all stand on the shoulders of giants, and the C# and Mono guys got to see what worked, and what didn't work, with the JVM (and all the other intervening CS lessons learned)

So, just because he's saying something critical of Java, I still care what Miguel de Icaza has to say. Now, he is deliberately confounding the JVM with the Java language, something inexcusable for someone leading the development of another multilanguage VM.

But, sometimes it takes an outside perspective to see what's wrong. Really, who here can disagree with a single one of these statements:

"Alvaro's teammates at Sun have a difficult challenge ahead of them when it comes to the language:how to fix a language that has been so badly bruised by their generics implementation, their refusal to acknowledge delegates, the ongoing saga over the catastrophic closure proposals [1] and the lack of a strong language designer to lead Java into the future"

It's tough to here that our little baby that we base our livelihood on is not the cutest and smartest of the bunch, but if we don't listen now, we may find ourselves on the short bus with the other languages that lived and then died.