Re: Java 8

My few cents, a bit on the side of the actual question:

1) joda time is an excellent replacement for Java's built-in Date (and
Calendar)... and it should work across all versions seamlessly.
http://www.joda.org/joda-time/

2) if you care about java 8 syntactic sugar constructs then this may
be of interest -- https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda. You could
write your code in 1.8, retroweave back to 1.7 bytecode and then ikvm
it to C# :)

Dawid

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Neil Cawse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeroen first off I'd like to add to the thanks for all your good working
> building IKVM. We have been using it for years very successfully (migrated
> the POI Excel library to c#). Amazing work really.
>
> My question is around support for Java 8. With Java 8 around the corner, we
> are internally wanting to start building some Java code in 8 because of the
> improved date libraries among others but have the code fully usable in c#.
> Looks like if you are updating ikvm, you may want to wait for release before
> you do this? Perhaps its a lot of work merging your changes into the OpenJDK
> 8?
> If you could let us know your plans and timeline around this it would be
> appreciated?
>
> thanks
> Neil
>
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