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Re:PHP 8 by cutler on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:05PM (#25223519)
A world class VM tied to a dinosaur language in which you still have to escape regex metacharacters.
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Re:PHP 8 by chipotle_coyote on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:18AM (#25226245)
The JVM is not tied to Java, which I think was a large part of adimitrov's observation. Kotlin, Scala and Clojure immediately come to mind. JRuby is also a fairly popular platform for Ruby. There's actually a huge list of other languages that run on the JVM, though.
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Re:PHP 8 by The_rationalist on Thursday November 26, 2020 @05:20PM (#25223945)
What are you talking about? Java has raw strings (autoescaping) https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/378 Moreover Kotlin allows to have a state of the art language in a state of the art vm
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