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Wanting Java to have better syntax does not mean that it is intolerable. I use Java more than I use any other language. I have a lot that depends on it. It woul
by mcculley 3y ago
Wanting Java to have better syntax does not mean that it is intolerable. I use Java more than I use any other language. I have a lot that depends on it. It would be really nice to have a new version of Java that rethinks the syntax from the ground up now that we have lambdas and generics. There is a lot of weird corners that make it hard to write code that would make sense to anyone not familiar with the reasons why we have all of these special rules stacked on top of each other.
- nvm0n2 3y agoIsn't that Kotlin? Java semantics, libraries, ecosystem and tools but cleaned up syntax.
- mcculley 3y agoKotlin feels like a different language to me, but yeah, I guess it could be. I have not worked enough in Kotlin to know what warts it might have.
- PaulHoule 3y agoKotlin, like Scala, strikes me as too similar to Java to really be compelling. Contrast that to Clojure which is an entirely different language that takes advantage of the JVM.