Well I got too disappointed by how the java developers added features. Really. Probably they had no choice, but making it like that, but it's still ugly. I hate the new Lambdas in JDK 8, for example. They're nothing but little syntax sugar (+ clojures, but you can fake them very easy too).
So in JDK 8 it's like that:
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| int result = 0;
new Thread(() -> {
result = 5;
}).start(); |
And in JDK 7 it could be translated like that:
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| class Closure {
int result = 0;
}
final Closure closure = new Closure();
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
closure.result = 5;
}
}).start(); |
So I started switching to scala.
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| var result = 0
new Thread(() => result = 5).start(); |
Or much cooler stuff:
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| List("Hello", " ", "world").foreach(println)
"Hello world".split(" ").foreach(println(_ + " "))
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Anyways, enough code rambling, also, lambdas aren't the only thing which made me switch to java. Also, I started learning scala and scheme
before trying out JDK 8 lambdas. And they pretty much disappointed me. They're still explicit classes. Really? :/
One last thing I'd like to show, which is
always handy for me
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| def time(thunk: => Unit) = {
val begin = System.currentTimeMillis()
thunk
System.currentTimeMillis()-begin
}
val timeInMillisceconds = time {
computePi()
}
val timeInMilliseconds = time(computePi) |
So, KTHXBYE
