I must be stuck in the past because my criterion to evaluate the relative importance of a language feature is still roughly “did Java 1.1 have this”. If not, you can *probably* be a productive developer without it
Prikaži ovu nit
-
Mmm i used to rag on Java for years (while not using it) for having excessively verbose syntax, lack of features etc. Then a professional Java programmer showed me all the plugins/tools/assists that IntelliJ and the related tooling provided to patch over this. Mind blown
Java had shit lambdas? Didn’t matter? IntelliJ made them look good. Lack of type inference? Lombok patches it in. The language was almost irrelevant compared to the tooling (which I guess to be fair is what you have to do when your language is rubbish 
)
