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Re:Java Feature Spotlight: Text Blocks by imglorp on Friday May 01, 2020 @10:02AM (#23042056)
More likely from Kotlin. The only difference is % instead of $. They also grabbed Kotlin's data classes (records in java).

Lots of cross pollination.

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Re:Java Feature Spotlight: Text Blocks by angus_gh on Friday May 01, 2020 @10:23AM (#23042247)
As the article says, they examined lots of languages, not just Kotlin (it would be arbitrary to confine their research to JVM languages..)

>> While Java could not adopt the Swift approach wholesale because of existing language constraints, the Java approach took as much inspiration from the good work that the Swift community did as we could -- and left room to take more in the future.

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