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Re:“It's The Future” by wry_discontent on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:58AM (#12305178)
Can you do similar stuff with clojure or Scala? Maybe there's a way to avoid the bad parts
Re:“It's The Future” by reitanqild on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:24AM (#12305373)
Actually for many of us it isn't bad.

I have come to the point where I only look at other languages once in a while and it serves me well.

A few years ago when I was still in farming we had the ostrich craze: ostriches were crazy profitable (or so the ostrich sellers said) and every farm needed to consider it.

Eggs where $300 a piece etc etc.

Of course the first to get one made great money by selling eggs, chicken and consulting hours to all the rest.

The rest where not so lucky and today I don't know a single ostrich farm.

Same goes for latest tech: if you want to you can try to be first and make a good living on the hype stream.

Re:“It's The Future” by dnissley on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:08AM (#12305250)
These days there are workarounds to avoiding a lot of xml configuration in the java ecosystem (although you end up with a decent amount of annotations). Spring boot is a great example of this.
Re:“It's The Future” by reitanqild on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:26AM (#12305383)
> These days there are workarounds to avoiding a lot of xml configuration in the java ecosystem

As is, believe it or not JavaEE.

Re:“It's The Future” by brightball on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:57AM (#12305636)
That's the nice thing about JVM languages. They get all that infrastructure without having to use Java straight up.
Re:“It's The Future” by softawre on Monday August 22, 2016 @11:25AM (#12336960)
Yeah. And Kotlin.