pregnenolone
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Comment · 2 days ago
On a related note.. The JDK developers could learn a thing or two from Scala, which comes with the really handy scala-cli. The JDK should have something similar.
Comment · 2 days ago
No I am not refering to python or JavaScript.
Deployment of Java applications continues to be a mess to this day. You can't get anywhere without obscure Maven or Gradle plugins and even then it's a mess, especially if you're dealing with modules and jlink. Actually, using jlink without these broken plugins is the closest thing to hell. I'm not even going to elaborate further because I've explained this many times (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423383).
Golang's or especially Rust's tooling on the other hand are simply beautiful. Even .NET is fine now.
Comment · 2 days ago
I saw this on Reddit, and as expected, the replies from the Java community were quite hostile. Sometimes it feels like Java developers have never left their own ecosystem and have never seen how easy some things (like deployment) are on other platforms. Especially Java's way of deploying applications has hindered not only Java but also alt JVM languages like Kotlin and Scala.
Comment · 1 month ago
What a bunch of nonsense.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Project Valhalla will go into Java 28
Unfortunatley without specialized generics and without the performance benefits that are supposed to come with it. They were too slow with Valhalla.
Comment · 2 months ago
WebView...
Comment · 2 months ago
Wasn't Go supposed to be "simple"? I remember how Go advocates used to boast about not having generics and now it almost seems like Go is trying to become some sort of C# or Java Frankenstein. I'm not even trying to badmouth Golang - just legitimately confused.
Comment · 3 months ago
That's great, even though specialized generics are still missing. I think these improvements will be especially beneficial for Scala, because it is such a powerful language, but abstracting on the JVM comes at a heavy price.