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Gavin King is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He's the creator of Hibernate, a popular persistence solution for Java and of the Ceylon programming language. He contributed to the Java Community Process as JBoss and then Red Hat representative for the EJB and JPA specifications and as spec lead and author of the CDI specification. He's currently a major contributor to the design of Jakarta Data and Jakarta Persistence. He lives in Barcelona with his wife and three daughters. His active interests include theoretical physics and quantum technologies.
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It's been a long three years since my first posts on this site describing our ideas for the Ceylon language. Now, finally, Ceylon 1.0 is feature complete. From the announcement on ceylon-lang.org:
In case you missed it, we just released the fourth milestone of Ceylon and Ceylon IDE. The next release will be the feature-complete Ceylon 1.0 beta, now due in January. We've also pushed a major update to Ceylon Herd.
This is the second release of the Ceylon compiler and other command line tools.
Great, I'm finally able to write, compile, and run Ceylon code that uses Java libraries from within Ceylon IDE:
The first official public release of the Ceylon IDE is out! You can read David's announcement here.
Los de JavaMéxico me han invitado a presentar Ceylon en el DF, el 17 de diciembre. (Será la primera vez que intento hablar de technologia en español y estoy temblando.)
Haha! Try compiling this Java code:
A couple of days ago I spotted an interesting hole in Ceylon's type checker. I started out with something like this: