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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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