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Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records by BubRoss on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:20PM (#22240483)
Does it strike anyone as odd that something trivial in toy languages from the 70s is a separate project 30 years in and named for the the heaven of the gods in the world of Java?
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Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records by lumost on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:41PM (#22242868)
On the other hand the toy languages from the 70s never caught on. In many workplaces Java is considered the high performance language and most devs would prefer Python/PhP at 1/100th the performance.
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Re:Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records by BubRoss on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:12PM (#22243059)
I don't know what point you are making, but C had structs in the 70s too and it hasn't been a technical hurdle to implement there either. It's literally a few instructions of asm.
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