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I did something similar a few years back, with a slightly different approach to declaration, using interfaces to denote the layout of the struct. Mutation was opt-in by exposing se…

They did have time-choice; they chose to allocate a substantial portion of it to having children.

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Sure you can. Ctrl-Shift-A, type 'keymap', and you get a handy popup (same size as the 'recent files' switcher available with Ctrl-E) with the defined keymaps ready to use. Few sec…

Regarding the 'checked exception issue'; an alternative technique to the method-wrapping-lambda is to use a default interface method to implement the non-exceptional interface, whi…

Not Invented Here syndrome, at all? Sure, I understand wanting to use Python for templates rather than relying on an external application. But why ignore the many, many existing te…

Source? If you look at expenditure on pharmaceutical research and development in the UK vs. the US, you see that 9% of global R&D expenditure is UK based, and 49% is US based. This…

"I'm pretty sure in 10 years time I will read a post about how you need to switch your horrible old messy AngularJS app to XYZ which will fix all your problems." More likely given …

There's a certain irony in the poster dismissing Java with one hand: "In effect, to the developer it 'feels like writing Java,' which as we all know, is a terrible feeling" While p…

I'm not sure why this article has been published in 2013; it seems to stem from the late 1990s, with it's speculation on the widespread use of technology 'by 2000': "I wouldn’t wan…

There is a detailed analysis of the feasibility of such systems in general on the following web page: http://www.nigelhewitt.co.uk/diving/rant/#gills Quote (following an explanatio…

Seems a somewhat low barrier for entry, if a 'design concept' consists of putting an action button on a notification.

I'm with you on the type checking (although this particular library doesn't seem to offer much in that space). That said, I'd argue that modern tooling (e.g. IDEA, and by associati…

I don't like this. I'm strongly of the opinion that SQL is a beautiful language, able to express in terse yet readable statements operations which would take many pages of Java to …

I want to test this product, and I'm in a position where I could spend real money on a purchase or subscription to this service in the event that it does what we need. Unfortunatel…

As a fairly experienced Java developer, I don't agree with this article. It reads more like a desperate fantasy, than a reasoned argument. The rapidity with which you can get start…