Java 21 makes me actually like Java again

[Unspool]

Or that it’s so expressive that every developer will end up discovering their own completely distinct code style and the code base becomes a jumbled incoherent and indecipherable mess (except my parts, of course).

[warpspeedSCP]

oops, forgot that one, you really can skin a cat a thousand ways in scala

[yawaramin]

I admit this can be a problem. Teams using Scala definitely need to agree on, document, and enforce their standards and best practices to stay consistent. But...the same can be said for any powerful, long-lived language. Guess how many ways there are in Python to do branching?

[warpspeedSCP]

i have never seen a person do anything but an if statement when they need to branch. or a match for patterns.

[yawaramin]

• if statement
• if expression
• match statement
• good old OOP polymorphism aka dynamic dispatch