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Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability by Banana699 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:06PM (#30770835)
This is like saying that null references are a non-issue because it have been there since the 1970s and that "true" $LANGUAGE developers never collide head-first into invalid dereferences. If something is ridiculous and un-ergonomic, it stays ridiculous and un-ergonomic no matter what. Reference comparison by default is ridiculous and un-ergonomic.
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Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability by junon on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @07:14AM (#30777246)
Null references exist in every language with the concept of null. It has nothing to do with Java specifically, and Java gives you a lot of information to debug them.
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Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability by jraph on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @01:43PM (#30781156)
That's right, but that also doesn't answer the parent's point to which I fully agree.
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