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Re:Manifold: Java Type-Safe Metaprogramming, Structural Typi... by mindcrime on Saturday May 04, 2019 @02:41AM (#19824843)
Looks pretty cool. Reminds me a lot of the ways in which Groovy improves Java.
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Re:Manifold: Java Type-Safe Metaprogramming, Structural Typi... by vorg on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:57PM (#19829642)
Apache Groovy really improved on Beanshell (by adding closures, in 2003), which is what improved on Java (by adding dynamic typing, in late 1990's).
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