Because no one really needs it.
Did you read the comment section? Even @edicted needs it.
Java is the 2nd most popular programming language in the world. Saying that people don't need it is an erroneous statement.
This new API could easily cause an influx of new developers/users on Hive. Something like that happening might even send the price of HIVE to the moon.
We have such libraries for JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python,.NET and Go. Implementation in Java won't be that different and difficult. It would be great to have one for Java of course but the proposed cost is more than 20x too much. It's just a simple RPC client with few serializers (boolean, string, varint etc) and ecdsa. All transaction types use the same set of serializers so adding support for new transactions is trivial if you already have at least some of them. You also overestimate the impact it will make. I would vote for an 8-10k proposal but 165k is a joke.
so coming back to this comment now, 9 months later;
@fulltimegeek was write
hive spends actual development money on things like hivewatchers to shitShill their HBD Shitcoin... meanwhile it's the active users in Splinterlands that keeps this chain running... it aint no BLOG, that's for sure.
kind regards- hiveON
Why did you come back to this after 9 months and write a completely unrelated comment?
good question.