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For Java, it’s easy: - v8: we added functions and streams. It basically changes everything. We also added asynchronous stuff but you don’t care yet. - v11: we
by lolive 6y ago
For Java, it’s easy:
- v8: we added functions and streams. It basically changes everything. We also added asynchronous stuff but you don’t care yet.
- v11: we added built-in async http. Now you really want to have a look at that asynchronous stuff from v8.
And that’s pretty much it.
- lolive 6y agoBy the way, we are at Java15 at the moment. And don’t ask me what happened in seasons 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15. Like grey’s anatomy, nobody knows and nobody cares.
- The_rationalist 6y agoOnly mediocre developers don't care about mastering their tool, but it seems that such mediocrity is quite institutionalized in the Java ecosystem. Java is evolving very quickly and will soon have e.g pattern matching.
- lolive 6y agoAm I the only one to consider "var" as a pointless way to declare a typed variable in Java? Especially in very classical cases like interface/implementation: AnInterface<String, String> foo = new AnImplementation<>();