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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by neko-kai on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:43PM (#46816308)
This is nonsense. And, not that there's anything wrong with classes, but compilers no longer need to 'insert fake classes' for anonymous functions since Java 8.
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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by ActorNightly on Friday January 30, 2026 @02:07AM (#46821369)
Pretty sure everything in the jvm has to be tied to a class structure by definition.
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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by neko-kai on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:16AM (#46870039)
Yes, and? Classes are not inherently bad, hence saying that JVM should not be invested in because its bytecode requires classes is nonsense.

re: inline lambdas, they have to be _tied_ to a class, and defined as methods, indeed. But they no longer have to be standalone classes themselves since JDK8

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