Rating 26 years of Java changes

Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes by flykespice on Saturday October 11, 2025 @04:48PM (#45552549)

It's another thing they adopted from Kotlin, since Kotlin is supposed to be a "better java". Now Java is retroactively adopting Kotlin freatures.

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Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes by speed_spread on Saturday October 11, 2025 @04:50PM (#45552574)

Kotlin didn't invent type inference, it's a feature from ML.

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Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes by raddan on Sunday October 12, 2025 @07:29AM (#45557371)

And not only that, Java was like 40 years late to the party. ML had Hindley-Milner type inference back in 1978! I can only imagine how foreign ML must have felt compared to other languages at the time.

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Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes by flykespice on Sunday October 12, 2025 @08:18AM (#45557671)

I never said Kotlin invented type inference, just that the syntax was straight adopted from kotlin

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Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes by speed_spread on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:14PM (#45561489)

What syntax? val and var were used by Scala before Kotlin. Lombok also has val. Java just needed to pick a keyword.

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