I have not been blogging much, but I have been reading. Java is somewhat disappointing of late for various reasons. Then I stumbled across this: the_next_big_jvm_language1 from Stephen Colebourne. It seems like an interesting idea to me. It would take some doing, but the advantages could be huge. It could encompass some of the best ideas and leave behind some of the old ideas we still struggle to shrug off.
I love this page, have a browse around its like going back to university learning many languages in the same day! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages Look at all those wonderful ideas. There are some that most of us would be familiar with others that hark back to a previous era, and yet more that are just pure genius. Personal favorites include Frink which, “represents all numerical quantities as not simply a number, but a number and the units of measurement that quantity represents. What that means is you can convert a value to another unit and track units through calculations easily.