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		cbm-vic-20 on March 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JDK 20 and JDK 21: What we know so far The Java team is very conservative in building out new language features- they find the things that have been battle tested in the wider language space, and take their lessons and adapt them into Java features. IMO this is a good thing. If it's "stealing" then every other language is "stealing" from each other, too.

margorczynski on March 10, 2023 | [–]

Java, the Debian of programming languages. I guess that would make Scala like Arch and Haskell - Gentoo?

cutler on March 10, 2023 | [–]

It's a pity they never stole quotemata() from Perl instead of having to escape regex metacharacters.

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