Re:IT Runs on Java 8
by chvid on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:13PM
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The JVM has multiple languages such as Kotlin, Scala and Groovy. Each of them arguably being a better language than Java. That most people still prefer to build projects in Java shows that other things such as backward compability, how many developers know the language, tool chain and so on matters more than the isolated technical merits of the language.
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Re:IT Runs on Java 8
by ivan_gammel on Friday May 10, 2019 @07:58PM
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Cannot agree more. Syntactic sugar or certain more advanced constructs in the end have very low ROI for experienced developers, which can utilize very well the existing language features and extend their expressive power with internal DSLs. The costs associated with the tooling, hiring people with necessary expertise etc at that point are more important.