Moving Java Forward Faster

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 06, 2017, 11:07 PM UTC

newforice wrote: post #14

callinyouin wrote: post #8

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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but I'm guessing you aren't. Anyway, from a full time Java developer's perspective, lambdas and the FP stuff added to Java 8 have sort of been a holy grail. Filtering with streams have single-handedly made my life as a developer measurably easier, but then again I'm a back-end web dev so it comes up a lot. If you're a Java developer, I'd strongly recommend going back and trying…

You seem to have jumped to the conclusion that I haven't tried the FP features. If I hadn't tried them, I wouldn't be criticizing them. If I wanted to work in FP style, I would choose an FP language; not encourage a traditional, solid language to be perverted to do something that is completely against the nature and design of that language.

Post by s73ver_ » Wed, Sep 06, 2017, 11:22 PM UTC

shock wrote: post #15

newforice wrote: post #14

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You seem to have jumped to the conclusion that I haven't tried the FP features. If I hadn't tried them, I wouldn't be criticizing them. If I wanted to work in FP style, I would choose an FP language; not encourage a traditional, solid language to be perverted to do something that is completely against the nature and design of that language.

Since lambdas and streams are optional, what is your critique of them?

Post by maxxxxx » Wed, Sep 06, 2017, 11:24 PM UTC

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #11

doodpants wrote: post #3

> To make it clear that these are time-based releases, and to make it easy to figure out the release date of any particular release, the version strings of feature releases will be of the form $YEAR.$MONTH. Thus next year’s March release will be 18.3, and the September long-term support release will be 18.9. Shouldn't those version numbers be 2018.3 and 2018.9? Have we learned nothing from the Y2K bug?

Imagine the shock when our descendents wake up on Jan 1 2118 and all their systems are accidentially running on a 100 year old JVM :)

Post by dragonwriter » Wed, Sep 06, 2017, 11:35 PM UTC

jswizzy wrote: post #20

newforice wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You seem to have jumped to the conclusion that I haven't tried the FP features. If I hadn't tried them, I wouldn't be criticizing them. If I wanted to work in FP style, I would choose an FP language; not encourage a traditional, solid language to be perverted to do something that is completely against the nature and design of that language.

FP and OOP are compatible styles. In fact, I would argue that FP is more object orientated than procedural code such as loops.

Post by haglin » Wed, Sep 06, 2017, 11:45 PM UTC

s73ver_ wrote: post #22

It'd be nice, but being an Android guy, I'd see zero benefit, as Google has no good way to push out updates to their VM.