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But Java is objectively verbose. The amount of milliseconds it takes someone to type a semicolon is pretty irrelevant to the inelegance of the language itself

• melling 10y ago
  He covers type inference too, which is much more painful not having: Animal animal = new Animal(); val animal = Animal(); Swift also doesn't need the semicolons. You can also omit the () in if and switch statements. It all adds up to a lot unnecessary noise. The immutability of let is really nice too. let animal = Animal() In Swift I don't bother adding the type for Strings, Bools or Ints: let foo = "Hello world" let answer = 42 var isDone = false if isDone { print("Correct: \(answer)") } else { print("Wrong answer!") }
• reitanqild 10y ago
  > But Java is objectively verbose. So what? > Author seems to be going on a rant defending Java more than anything else IMO. Also known as "a breath of fresh air" :-) Edit: on a more serious note I find Java to be completely worth it as long as I make simple webapps and do simple backend tasks (payment and messaging integration).
  • tedmiston 10y ago
    > So what? Exactly! I don't necessarily consider this a problem as much as something that "just is".