zeedude

> Trying to raise a software engineering discipline to the standard of the real engineers would leave you with an employee too expensive to do what his professional ethics wouldn't allow him to.

Nah. The vast majority of software projects are of the lower echelon variety e.g., the slapdash shopping cart web apps. Considering JavaScript is still the language of choice in that realm, engineering rigors can’t exactly be of any real consideration.

No, it’s not the expense keeping real engineering away, it’s the culture.

Recovery?

They mostly have to do with design decisions / implementation details, not issues with extension methods in general.

Ding!

There are good reasons. When you begin writing IDE support you will discover that:

1. Without annotations you’ll be forced to index all static methods based on the first argument, globally.

2. Method call code completion will be ridiculous. How many static methods have String, File, List, Object(!) etc. as the first parameter? I don’t think anybody wants their code completion to be invaded like that.

The annotations provide intention. Essentially, adding an extension method is not something to be taken lightly, it requires careful consideration, weighing context, frequency, etc.

My sentiments exactly. The “API designers should control their APIs” one is my favorite and one of the more ridiculous things I’ve heard him say, which is saying something. It’s beyond humor, though, that all of his reasons are fallacies.

Nice redirection of focus there.

The “truth”

Limit training to stackoverflow input and wham! we have automated modern programming ;)

They are good about supporting latest JDK release and all LTS releases, going back to 8.

It’s Oracle’s saber rattling lately concerning plugins like Lombok and Manifold that make me more disappointed than nervous.

The West has been importing its population for decades, full gas since 1965. Not only is this strategy failing, it is a significant contributor to the West’s current decline. The core problem is more centered on the dynamics of the 20th century that led to mass immigration.