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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by oftenwrong on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:38AM (#21703709)
Spot on. Thankfully it is becoming more common to Just Write Java. Java without the frameworks and other bloated crap is actually decent. The language itself has a lot of warts, but the Java ecosystem is one of the best (Python too).
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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by MH15 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:54AM (#21703888)
This is how I feel about the language! Modern Java works well enough to me that the frameworks are nearly never justified.
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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by smabie on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:20PM (#21705164)
What ecosystem? The JVM doesn’t require Java. Scala is pretty much categorically better in every way than Java.
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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by retbull on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @02:24PM (#21705946)
Not in maintainability. It is pretty hard to follow Scala when people use the flexibility too much. You have so many options that everyone develops their own flavor of overrides/overloads and style. This makes transferring skills between jobs or even just projects much harder as the same looking code line can mean several things.
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