Introducing Timefold, the exciting next chapter in #OptaPlanner's legacy! 🚀

Founded by Geoffrey De Smet and Maarten Vandenbroucke, we're here to take the project to new heights while offering seamless continuity for our community.

https://timefold.ai/blog/2023/optaplanner-fork

#OptaPlanner - the popular open source Solver AI - is my life's work. I created it 17 years ago and have been working on it ever since, including 9 years for Red Hat.

Today, I am forking my own project.

Meet #Timefold, the fork of #OptaPlanner 🚀

https://timefold.ai/blog/2023/optaplanner-fork/

I'm sure you've encountered the annoying situation where you chain constructors in #Java but can't smoothly call the right one with `this(...)` or `super(...)` because you need to do work before, which the compiler doesn't allow: no statements before `this`/`super`!

That's about to change - behold JEP 447: https://openjdk.org/jeps/447

Is it my fault if you can’t handle the truth? (2019)

Comments

Is #Java old and not evolving? Do you need to compile your #Java code before you can run it? Is #Java slow and insecure? Will your #Java application stop while memory cleanup is ongoing? Batting outdated ideas aside like flies, check out @frankdelporte on Foojay  Today.

https://foojay.io/today/9-outdated-ideas-about-java/

#foojaytip

When I get the typical support email saying:

"The customer does <absurd_thing_not_making_any_fucking_sense>, how can we make this work?"

my usual answer is:

"By showing them how the rewrite that thing in a more reasonable way"

and then we end up supporting the absurd thing 😭