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Bruno Borges • • Edited

Hasn't features like Type-Inference (var), lambdas, new APIs in the Collections Framework, and recently Records and pattern matching helped in any form to reduce the verbosity?

I mean, this is a possibility with Java 15:


public record Person(String name, int age) {}

public class Process {

  public void process() {
    var p0 = new Person("a", 18);
    var p1 = ...;

    var list = List.of(p0, p1);

    // sum all ages
     list.stream().mapToInt(Person::age).sum();
  }
}
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Brian Morearty •

Yup, glad to see those advances. It’s taken much, much too long IMO for the language to catch up and introduce things like that. I gave up on it before those were part of the language, and that was after 15 years of waiting.