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> Java is maturing into a syntactically nice language, albeit slowly, and it's the backbone of many medium and large companies.

I've heard about Java initiatives to improve it, but can you point to examples of how how Java "is maturing into a syntactically nice language"?

I'm tempted to learn it, but wonder whether it would really become nice enough to become a 'go-to' language (over TS in my case)

> I know the win version now works pretty well on linux with wine. But the process to set this up is not yet automated (like 20min) and is being worked on

Where did you get the information about it being worked on?

How is Ubuntu's GUI bloated (and unusable)?

Where did you get that information from? I've never used that functionality myself, but haven't seen info indicating it got deprecated so I assumed it's still supported?

For Python use, what would be the case for using this over something like xlwings -- what are the main benefits over xlwings?

Will you be creating a mobile application for Livecoding.tv? It's not even usable at the moment on iPhone via Safari.

Also a suggestion: timestamps would be pretty useful in chat.