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Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by didip on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:34AM (#11961149)
I'd love to learn more about Java's broken collection types. What's broken about them?
Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by premium-concern on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:47PM (#11965438)
The pattern of throwing exceptions for operations deemed "unsupported", an API that requires massive workarounds to keep alive in Java 10, no support for immutable collections, unmodifiable views are a complete clusterfuck, no persistent collections etc.