alt Hacker News17 years is a rookie number. Take C# auto-properties, for example: 19 years ago!
Now try asking, "When did Java get auto-properties?"
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marginalia_nu • yesterday at 2:01 PM
News at 11.
Language that runs on the explicit design philosophy of letting other languages experiment first and then incorporating their lessons learned once the dust has settled is late to implement a feature.
I never cared about those kind of syntax sugars. I was happy with IDE/static checkers, lombok, mapstruct, etc.
I missed generators like that virtual threading for example.
btw: i was referring a single point when oracle bought sun and "closed java".