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by PySlice 4831 days ago
Me too. However, I don't think Java needs much to become an appealing language (for language-geeks).

It's already going to get lambdas. Add some shortcuts for getters and setters (Lombok-style, maybe) and collections literals, then you get surprisingly close to Groovy (and JPA @Entity classes will become 1/6 of their sizes). And just like Strings have special + and +=, Bignums could have some compiler help (as they already do in JSP EL).

It will still be behind C#, but not by much. At that point I could agree that Java and C# have different philosophies and Java will never get true operator overloading, but it doesn't matter much if the most important use cases are covered.
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vorg 4831 days ago
> It's already going to get lambdas. [...] then you get surprisingly close to Groovy

The memory footprints for Java 8 lambdas and Groovy's closures are, er, quite different.

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PySlice 4830 days ago
Which is better?
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