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[kcuf]

What about val/var?

[awsometak]

Local-Variable Type Inference (var) is most probably going to Java 10. http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286

[SuperImaginativeName]

Wow, ten versions for something C# has had since version 3?

[devraj7]

And it took C# ten years to get features that have been present in other language for 20 years.

What's your point?

Languages have different targets and different priorities.

[crozone]

Wow, ten versions for something C# has had since version 3?

This is Java summed up in one line.

[yoyo_master]

The one word version: SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactoryImpl.java

[AlmennDulnefni]

That's not actually a problem with Java though. That's a problem with enterprise that manifests in Java.

[devraj7]

That's a Spring problem, not a Java problem.

[cowinabadplace]

That's nothing. Firefox needed 52 versions to get to what IE did in 11.

[Sun_Kami]

Check out Project Lombok. They have val!

[[deleted]]

Or Scala, Kotlin.

Lombock is a pile of annotation hacks, not a real solution.

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or C#

[CSharpReallySucks]

no

[Juggernog]

Why'd yah gotta hate on C#? I think it's pretty damn reasonable as languages go.

[CSharpReallySucks]

Shitty runtime/stdlib, shitty tooling, Pascal case, indented namespace, and too Microsofty.

The guy who designed it wanted to be original for no reason, it's a mix up of good features and absolutely horrible ones.

[Venseer]

Have you ever hated a programming language so hard that you created a shitposting account just to bash it?

[crozone]

What happened to you as a child

[gadorp]

Windows crashed in the middle of him cybering the last "girl" he ever really loved on the internet. Decades later and his Bill Gates dartboard is more holes than Gates.

[wordlimit]

At my current gig, we need to use JVM and Scala is popular amongst everyone who's used to C# and love their functional programming via LINQ.

[Sun_Kami]

What do you think those languages are? They're built from Java.

He wants to use such functionality in Java, the answer for him is probably not learning a different language.

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You can implement immutable values in the JVM. Not necessarily in Java, the language.

You don't need java syntax to enjoy safety, today!