[threeten-develop] More 310 Feedback

[Richard W. <ric...@gm...>]

Hey all,

Today there was some notable interest in JSR 310 on reddit, which I
think brought up some good points of user feedback as we run into
Javaone discussions.

Programming Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10hxb5/introducing_a_new_date_and_time_api_for_jdk_8/
Java Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/10gdd9/introducing_the_new_date_and_time_api_for_jdk_8/
Original Article: http://java.dzone.com/articles/introducing-new-date-and-time

I think there's a few interest things to note:

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10hxb5/introducing_a_new_date_and_time_api_for_jdk_8/c6dngnr
is an interesting thread.
Yet another example in the response of someone thinking that Calendar
a substitute for GregorianCalendar.

2. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10hxb5/introducing_a_new_date_and_time_api_for_jdk_8/c6dnekh
is a guy complaining
about class bloat who is currently on -4 karma and dropping.  Seems
more people care about a fluent and usable API.

3. http://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/10gdd9/introducing_the_new_date_and_time_api_for_jdk_8/c6djz24
a programmer who really
wants a class which guarantees that he doesn't have to deal with Locales.

4. Many comments just happy to have a replacement API which isn't as
broken as the Calendar or Date APIs.

regards,

  Richard