On: JDK 21 Release Notes

[freedomben]

Eww, you're not kidding, that's awful.

Java is my most ambivalent language. There's things I love, and things I hate, and when it's good it's really good, when it's bad ... Yuck.

That said, I do think Python went worse with f-strings. Would have loved to see Java look to Groovy for inspiration.