Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API

Re:Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API by zaphirplane on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:26AM (#33904527)

Adding features doesn’t mean breaking backwards compatibility, I can only think of modules since Java 8 that can maybe be.

What Kotlin features are possible because of that freedom ? Genetics can be an example I can’t say it’s impossible for Java to add in out refied keywords

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Re:Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API by mike_hearn on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:47AM (#33907849)

The obvious one is putting types on the right, which is a useful syntax for more pervasive type inference.

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Re:Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API by kaba0 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:03AM (#33909380)

I don’t know, in theory replacing types with ‘var’ would work just as well for Java, the advantage (or more like elegance) of ident: type syntax comes from a parser perspective.

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