Eclipse Launches New Programming Language

An anonymous reader writes "Eclipse has launched a website for a new JVM language, called Xtend. It's built with Eclipse's Xtext and compiles directly to Java code, similar to what CoffeeScript does to Javascript. It's not just an announcement but it's already there and useable, including a very feature-rich Eclipse integration."

Re:Why? Because!

[tomhudson]

"We saw what you did with your classes, so we added some more classes to your classes to hide your classes because we have more class."

"We saw what you did with your syntax so we added some more syntax to your syntax to hide your syntax because we are more syntaxy."

"We saw that java still sucks so we added some more suckiness to java's suckiness to hide java's suckiness because our suckiness sucks less ... sort of ... maybe ..."

"... because our next step is to distract you from our new suckiness by adding more xml ..."

Re:Why?

[SplashMyBandit]

You do know that the Java runtime is an order of managitude smaller than the .NET runtime dont you (and that is not even considering that .NET also requires the bulk on Windows while Java does not). In short, your knowledge is severly out of date - you musta been drinking the Microsoft koolaid. Well, here is news for you, .NET will be superceded by another Microsoft product long before people stop using Java (especially in the Enterprise space).

Re:Why?

[HiThere]

Yes. Java was (and is) a lot faster than Smalltalk. Sorry, but that *is* significant.

Of the languages that you list, only Lisp is faster, or even nearly as fast as, Java. And Lisp is hard to wrap your mind around. (And here I'm assuming that you mean compiled Common Lisp.) Also, in the early years of Java, a free compiler was unusual. Having a language with a free compiler was a real win. That's much less a consideration now, but now that shape of the language landscape has a lot more inertia.

Re:EMF

[TuringTest]

Meet the new slashdot, where technical programming posts that actually give insight are met only with trollish hate and a general lack of understanding. Learn to Google your TLAs before exposing your lack of skilz, kid.

Re:Yet Another C Variant (YACV)

[shutdown -p now]

Can we please get C with sane declarator syntax? And some form of generic programming? And function literals? And a better-working separate compilation model that doesn't require people to wrap their entire interface declaration in #ifdef/#endif?

Then, yes, we can just program in C.