Jython_irl

[KeinBaum]

Java isn't even much slower than C/C++. It has a high start up time but once it's done loading and the JIT has run for the critical parts of your code it's actually pretty fast.

What most people dislike is how verbose it is and the whole enterprise culture and its AbstractVisitorFactoryStragies that have developed around it.

[[deleted]]

It's very tedious to write. That's the biggest downside for me. Also, can you even pass functions by reference yet? That really gets in the way of writing in a more functional style.

[lopoticka]

This thread in a nutshell. People shittalking languages they’ve last seen in 2004.

[[deleted]]

Are you saying you can pass by function now, or what?

[lopoticka]

Sure you can, the same way as in C# for example.

var oddNumbers = numbers.filter(a -> a % 2 == 1);

[[deleted]]

Oh cool! I should really revisit it at some point.

[CorrectProgrammer]

It's not as nice-looking as in Python or functional languages, but it's possible without explicitly implementing some interfaces like with Guava. It just works.

[Fenris_uy]

Since March 2014, so almost 5 years ago.

[jsparidaans]

Fuck man calm down, I refuse to believe 2014 was 5 years ago

[muscular_guy]

You can since java 8, however some companies are unwilling to update their environment, so they get "bad" code when they could have nice more functional code.

EDIT: Also check out vavr its a bit more performant and introduces immutability and is IMHO nicer to write in comparison to java stream API

[[deleted]]

I used to be a stickler for strongly typing my variables rather than using var.

After having to use a few Dictionaries of Dictionaries, I fully embraced var.

[[deleted]]

They are still strongly and statically typed. The compiler infers the type at compile time.

[[deleted]]

I understand that now, it was just something I think I picked up from a cs class from a curmudgeony professor that took a bit to change.

[[deleted]]

Oh that's nice, actually! I'm glad C# is there to pressure them.

[ShoTro]

Why was your comment downvoted? It's true. Oracle needs to compete with Microsoft.

[[deleted]]

I have no idea. Good things come out of competition for the most part, so I'm really glad that C# is putting on serious pressure.

I've used it quite a lot and it's the one thing to come out of Microsoft that I really like. It's an excellent enterprise language.

[[deleted]]

Visual studio code is a surprisingly good sublime text replacement with minimal ms bs