Gafter to Microsoft..

Initially I found it hard to Believe, but it appears to be true that Neal Gafter one of the Java-rock star has joined Microsot. I wonder what this means to his Closures proposal.

Twitter:

“working on Microsoft Visual Studio Managed Languages with Anders Hejlsberg, on C# and other languages. “

Also confirmed by the latest Java Posse podcast (#208)

September 29, 2008 | Filed Under general, java

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5 Responses to “Gafter to Microsoft..”

  1. anjan bacchu on September 29th, 2008 4:23 pm

    hi there,

    when he left Sun, that showed that he didn’t care for Java as much as his career(Nothing wrong with that).

    I’m surprised BUT not as much.

    BR,
    ~A

  2. Behrang on September 29th, 2008 8:15 pm

    Maybe the upper management had made the situation so that he had no choice but to leave Sun. He is not the only super genius who has left Sun. There’s definitely something wrong at Sun.

  3. Fred on September 30th, 2008 1:30 am

    OK, well he left Google not Sun. While at Google he was very active on the Java scene (talked at JavaOne). Closures is dead now, MS do not allow staff to work on competing technologies. He must have got sic just pushing against more senior Java community people who wanted the closures issue to die.

  4. conny.lundgren on September 30th, 2008 7:50 am

    I have to agree with Fred, Neal was active within the Java community when he was at google.

  5. Casper Bang on December 17th, 2008 7:18 pm

    “…that showed that he didn’t care for Java as much as his career”

    I think that’s a bit of a misnomer. Anybody following him will know he had second thoughts about checked exceptions, wanted closures and in general just felt like SUN was leaving Java behind and is letting innovation come to astandstill. This shines through in the last interview he did just a few months before leaving: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/gafter-closures-language-features-optional-typing

    So it’s probably more correct to say that he cares about programming languages more than his career.

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