<https://github.com/nieuwmijnleven/JPlus> - what's...

# random

[Robert Jaros]

https://github.com/nieuwmijnleven/JPlus - what's your thoughts?

[Rob Elliot]

On the practical side - 5 stars, 19 commits, 1 committer, no IDE support - it's a hobby project that's wildly unlikely to ever get uptake, and would be years away from being a practical option in the (highly unlikely) event that it continues for years.

On the theoretical side - I don't see the point? Kotlin has the "better Java" sewn up, unless you can't cope with inverting Type variable to variable: Type and putting fun in front of your functions, in which case you might want to think about a different career. It's already had a volume of human years of engineering put into it that will be very hard to match, has a commercial team behind it that means there are quality engineers working on it full time, and crucially is guaranteed a high level of IDE support. Which is the one thing that I think Java type devs (of whom I am one) most resent losing.

But if you really want a language that is a superset of Java then surely you should work on... Java. The release cadence is getting faster, and they are up for improving the language, so why think that you can create a better superset of current Java than the javac devs? Or if you think you can, why not try and join them? Java improvements will get massive tooling support from people like JetBrains without you needing to do the work.

Obviously having your own language where you get to call the shots on every decision is fun, and hobbies are fine, but I'll eat my hat if it's ever more than that.

[Stefan Oltmann]

The name reminds me on Microsoft J++

[PHondogo]

That is how evolution works. Many mutations - much less survive.

[Dumitru Preguza]

It’s like lombok embedded into the language