Ruby 3.4.0 - Hackdot

Re:Ruby 3.4.0 by Kwpolska on Thursday December 26, 2024 @04:16AM (#42514081)

Creating a new thread is equally simple in Java:

    var thread = new Thread(() -> {
      // Thread code
    });
    thread.start();
    // ...
    thread.join();

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Re:Ruby 3.4.0 by speleding on Thursday December 26, 2024 @05:06AM (#42514242)

Yes, but it's a good example of how Java is about twice as verbose to do the same work. The Ruby version of that can be written as simply:

Thread.new{ ... thread code ...}.join

The extra verboseness quickly adds up if every statement takes twice as much code.

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Re:Ruby 3.4.0 by lucasoshiro on Thursday December 26, 2024 @07:40AM (#42514842)

Fair. I must admit that I'm not aware of the recent features of Java. Last time I really needed it was the time that we needed to instance an anonymous class for callbacks. I still find the block syntax in Ruby cleaner though.

Kotlin is another language that has this Ruby-style blocks for callbacks.

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