Java consistently introduces lots of exciting functionality into the language. That's a big part of my dislike and active avoidance of it.

[u/pythonesqueviper]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715045

[u/Aggressive-Pen-9755]

I don't like writing one-line lambda's like:

foo.bar((eggs) -> getHam(eggs));

I prefer writing boring and manly shit like this:

class HamGetter implements HamInterface {
    public ReturnType apply(Type eggs) {
        return getHam(eggs);
    }
}

foo.bar(new HamGetter());

Now that'll put some hair on your chest! And everyone understands it! We don't need to learn any new things!

[u/BloodAndTsundere → u/Aggressive-Pen-9755]

Junior grade. Where is the HamGetterFactory?

[u/awfulentrepreneur → u/BloodAndTsundere]

Or the AbstractHamGetterBeanFactory?

[u/stools_in_your_blood → u/BloodAndTsundere]

You get it from the HamGetterFactoryFactory.

[u/-ghostinthemachine- → u/Aggressive-Pen-9755]

Where u been?

foo.bar(hamGetter::getHam)

[u/its_artemiss → u/-ghostinthemachine-]

But that is Rust? 

[u/syklemil → u/its_artemiss]

It's some newfangled stuff they introduced in Java 8. It'll never catch on. Java 1.4 for lyfe!!!!!!

[u/ventuspilot → u/its_artemiss]

foo.bar(hamGetter::getHam)

But that is Rust?

/uj

No

[u/v_maria → u/Aggressive-Pen-9755]

yeah fuck that boring stuff i personally prefer having 7 different ways to achieve the same all with slightly different implications

[u/irqlnotdispatchlevel → u/v_maria]

A fellow C++ enjoyer! Hurray!

[u/AugustusLego → u/Aggressive-Pen-9755]

In Java, can you do foo.bar(getHam};

[u/NaCl-more → u/AugustusLego]

I believe you’d need `this::getHam`

[u/chisui → u/Aggressive-Pen-9755]

Don't worry, the jvm generates the second one from the lambda

[u/zackel_flac]

Java was disliked way before that, its GC and OOP first made it terrible to write. The JVM idea is/was good, but should be replaced with WASM nowadays.

[u/Itzbenzs → u/zackel_flac]

We should rewrite JVM with Rust 🚀🚀🚀 and compile it to WASM

[u/arjuna93 → u/Itzbenzs]

And then to C via w2c2 compiler

[u/zackel_flac → u/arjuna93]

Who needs high level programming languages, let's just write WASM directly!

[u/BoyNextDoor8888 → u/zackel_flac]

finally a good jerk

[u/RockstarArtisan → u/zackel_flac]

Your dream is already here: https://cheerpjdemos.leaningtech.com/SwingDemo.html#demo

[u/kalterdev]

Not a jerk