Re:Why I like Java
by duarose on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @05:52AM
(#7464824)
Of course, StringUtils is not in the core API; the first idiom "foo".equals(bar) works in Java everywhere, StringUtils.equals("foo", bar) will only work in projects that pull in org.apache.commons.
Personally I prefer using facilities in the core API over third party APIs, even if the third party API is included anyway for some essential function.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Why I like Java
by Consultant32452 on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @11:25AM
(#7466407)
I've been coding in Java for over 10 years. If I ran across pretty much any project that wasn't including Apache commons I'd be startled. I get your point, but some libraries are in such common use that for all practical purposes I consider them part of the language API.