ejboy

I would never use the proposed style for Java. This is simpler and easier to understand for anyone with basic knowledge of Java. Readability is more important than fancy features:

if (obj instanceof Point p) {

    foo(p.x(), p.y());

}

For me, Java 8 was tolerable. Also used IJ a lot and it hides Java verbosity and reduced a lot of typing. That's why I didn't really see the need to switch. For better or worse, these days I don't even open IJ and just use VSCode + AI Badger mostly to review my changes. Language matters even less.

I never fully switched to Kotlin. It’s good, but not good enough. I also like the direction Java has been evolving in over the last 10 years, to the point that a JVM server is actually lighter than a Node.js server :)

Meta is one of those companies that is doing more harm than good. Scraping is just making their walled-garden content free.

I see charts. I don’t see the analysis