Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability
by munificent on Thursday March 24, 2022 @05:31PM
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I did say "almost every" and not "every". :)
Were there fast managed languages? Yes, a couple.
Were there fast managed object-oriented languages? Yes, Self and a Smalltalk or two.
Were there fast managed statically typed languages? Yes, SML and Haskell.
Where there fast, managed, statically typed, and object-oriented languages? Not many. Maybe Eiffel, but that was shackled by DbC dogmatism and probably some amount of Eurocentricity. I don't think Ada had GC back then and if your complaint is that Java is too verbose, you sure as heck aren't gonna like Ada.
Were there fast managed languages? Yes, a couple.
Were there fast managed object-oriented languages? Yes, Self and a Smalltalk or two.
Were there fast managed statically typed languages? Yes, SML and Haskell.
Where there fast, managed, statically typed, and object-oriented languages? Not many. Maybe Eiffel, but that was shackled by DbC dogmatism and probably some amount of Eurocentricity. I don't think Ada had GC back then and if your complaint is that Java is too verbose, you sure as heck aren't gonna like Ada.