New Features in Java 14

Re:New Features in Java 14 by dmitriid on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:13AM (#22481803)

Can't understand the need for records when C# solves the problem of boilerplate with regular classes and some syntactic sugar.

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Re:New Features in Java 14 by vbezhenar on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:28AM (#22482617)

Apparently immutable classes in a functional streams is a new hotness and nobody uses POJOs anymore. They'll slap pattern-matching on top of that, to complete the circle.

I completely agree as I, myself, see very few instances where I could use records in my code. But properties to remove getter/setter boilerplate? That would remove thousands of LoC. But it's not hot.

Fashion-driven development, that is.

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Re:New Features in Java 14 by Kipters on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:45AM (#22482401)

It's an easy and zero-boilerplate way to have immutable data-only structures with some useful tidbits like structural comparison, meaningful hashcodes etc.

I say this as a C# developer that would desperately want them supported in C# and was super pissed off when they were discarded from C# 8.0 (I actually need them right now, they would save me a whole day of typing today)

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Re:New Features in Java 14 by u7u7h on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:02AM (#22482495)

Records are coming https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/projects/4#card-1849391.... Will be in C# 9

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Re:New Features in Java 14 by Kipters on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:46AM (#22483665)

hopefully yes, I'm following the Records v2 issue on github :D

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