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Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by Buttons840 on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:37AM (#7426844)
I've always said: "With Java plus XML, you can have one language for the price of two."

With Java, you write a lot of syntax to get static typing, but it's worth it because static typing! Then you throw static typing away (because now it's to restrictive I suppose?) to use XML files which must be structured a certain unpredictable way or you'll cry at the traceback you receive, and pray your imminent Google search can make sense of it all.

Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by RyanZAG on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @04:23AM (#7427330)
Nobody with any sense uses XML in Java anymore. Everything uses annotations now.