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One thing I would really love to see is a better way how you manipulate strings. Variable interpolation would be nice and you wouldn't have to have all that ugl

by vitro 7y ago

One thing I would really love to see is a better way how you manipulate strings. Variable interpolation would be nice and you wouldn't have to have all that ugly string concatenation all over the place.

cutler 7y ago
Don't forget regular expressions. How anyone puts up with having to escape all backlashes is beyond me. But, then, I'm used to Perl and Ruby. Scala, Clojure and Kotlin don't have this problem so why is the Emperor Without Clothes That Is Java having such a hard time?
- floriol 7y ago
  Because it's 20+ years old and tries to be as source compatible as possible?
  - cutler 7y ago
    Perl and Ruby are at least as old but I never had to backslash everything when writing regexen in Perl or Ruby.