alt Hacker NewsI’m sorry, but null restricted types, string templates, basic json support, and fixing the broken exception system isn’t “fat”. They’re the basics of a functioning language.
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krzyk • today at 5:14 PM
Handling JSON as a basics for language? Really? null restricted type will come with valhalla, string templates had a try, but people complained and they withdrawn them after 2 preview iterations. Not sure what issue people had with them and what issues maintainers noticed.
What do you mean by broken exception system?
Java is not a small language that you can throw features around, they have to take into consideration final goal of it and decades of development.
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Null restricted types are indeed important and while null check plugins exist for Java, this is a big step in the good direction by kotlin.
String templates are valuable syntactic sugar, but that's it.
There are a bazillion JSON libraries with at least 3-4 absolutely stellar ones. I don't really see it that big of a limiter.
And if you mean checked exceptions, that's controversial to claim it's all bad. But some ergonomics improvements would be better.