A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16

Re:A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK... by DaiPlusPlus on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:28PM (#26664968)

Remind me, why doesn’t Java have object-properties yet?

So far the only reason I’ve concluded is Java’s language designers’ egos were so damaged by C#, Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript, etc that after dogmatically denying the developer-productivity benefits of properties for the past 20 years that to concede now would mark the end of Java as a language entirely.

...I kid, but seriously I haven’t heard any compelling argument from the Java camp yet for refusing to add this feature. Object-properties are easily the lowest-hanging-fruit with the biggest productivity-gains.

Heck, even some of the most popular C++ compilers support object-properties as proprietary extensions.

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Re:A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK... by zmmmmm on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:42PM (#26667171)

It's so crazy - with all the huge and radical features they've added this would surely have been so simple by comparison and yet added more value than about 80% of the things they've done. It's about half the reason I still use Groovy now since Java has solved most of the rest over time. But I just cannot go back to writing getters and setters!

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Re:A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK... by kaba0 on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:50AM (#26669999)

I believe the Java lang team simply dislikes the Java Beans convention, and if they see a better future, they rather not maintain properties forever.

I think the current future view is Withers ( https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/blob/master/eg-drafts/... ).

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