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Version 1.7 of the programming language features a few old Java class tricks and some additions to ease the burden of working with SQL-based databases. Version 1.8 is already in the works
The year that loved smartphones, scripting languages, the cloud, and open source was not always kind to developers. Check out these winner and losers of 2009