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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by lanna on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:31PM (#35013323)
Are they trying to make Scala look more complicated than the other languages on purpose? The Scala example f"$x%d plus $y%d equals ${x + y}%d" could be written simply as s"$x plus $y equals ${x + y}"
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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by geodel on Friday March 03, 2023 @02:02PM (#35013644)
Yes, Java is legit scared of Scala's rising popularity.
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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by AtlasBarfed on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:49PM (#35014808)
If anything Java is becoming groovy. Almost all features adopted are groovy features.
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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by oblio on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:06PM (#35014983)
Is Scala rising? It used to be hyped a ton back in the earlier Twitter days, about 10 years ago, but since then, everything has been quiet.

If anything, Kotlin is probably ahead of Scala now, adoption wise.

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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by avgcorrection on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:54PM (#35015578)
Wait. Did we just get teleported back to 2018?
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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by isbvhodnvemrwvn on Friday March 03, 2023 @05:41PM (#35016022)
Sarcasm carries poorly over text :)
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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by ndriscoll on Friday March 03, 2023 @02:11PM (#35013742)
It's funny too because the Scala ecosystem has had safe string interpolation for years. e.g. with Slick sql"SELECT * FROM Person p WHERE p.last_name = $lastName" will produce a parameterized query/prepared statement that you can run, and it does this at compile time so runtime injection like log4shell is impossible.
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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by optician_owl on Saturday March 04, 2023 @01:42AM (#35018774)
One of the best application I've seen is structured and contextual logging [1]. Combined with implicits, this allows you to require a right renderer or/and automatically get a current state of an execution context.

1. https://docs.tofu.tf/docs/tofu.logging.key-features/

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