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These features are explicitly to make teaching Java as a first language easier. From https://openjdk.org/jeps/463 https://openjdk.org/jeps/463 Goals: Offer a
by user_of_the_wek 2y ago
These features are explicitly to make teaching Java as a first language easier. From https://openjdk.org/jeps/463 https://openjdk.org/jeps/463
Goals:
Offer a smooth on-ramp to Java programming so that instructors can introduce concepts in a gradual manner.
Help students to write basic programs in a concise manner and grow their code gracefully as their skills grow.
Reduce the ceremony of writing simple programs such as scripts and command-line utilities.
Do not introduce a separate beginners' dialect of the Java language.
Do not introduce a separate beginners' toolchain; student programs should be compiled and run with the same tools that compile and run any Java program.
- themaninthedark 2y agoI learnt to program using Pascal, then C++ in Highschool. In collage, CS101 and 102 required me to learn and use JAVA, which I felt was a huge step backwards in usability and a lot of excess typing. But as I reflect on it now, I think my feeling were because I came from knowing how to do some things and therefore not requiring the framework that JAVA offed to first time programmers.
- fulafel 2y agoI think the sins of Java as a first language are twofold: 1. The obvious excess incidental complexity 2. and more important, the enterprisey culture that's much less compatible with the intellectual curiosity, looking under the hood, etc attitude that's needed to become a decent programmer.