r/java • u/lukaseder • Sep 19 '18

JEP draft: Concise Method Bodies

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8209434
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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '18

Okay, C# programmer here; please don't implement this crap. C# has all kinds of 'neat' features that have made the language very nasty to work with and is driving some people away (like myself). You think it's a great feature until another developer bastardizes the crap of of them and then shoves it all together. Remember that, where we can choose to or not to use a feature, that isn't true about the code you have to maintain or the devs you have to work with. I am looking to switch to Java for its elegance in its simplicity. But if they decide to start adopting the features of C#, I'll go somewhere else.

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u/jonhanson Sep 20 '18

Preventing mis-use by idiots isn't generally a good guiding criteria for language design.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '18 edited Sep 20 '18

No it isn't. But coming from C#, this feature is not one that yields more readable or maintainable code. Once you start to open the flood gates then you get all kinds of crap...take a look at what they've done and have proposed with C#. I'm not saying that all features are bad but I am saying that we need to be extremely cautious about what gets added. It seems that languages are too focused on 'advancing' just to not be stale and forgetting the purpose of what the language was designed to do and the problems it was designed to solve. I don't want a language that is everything to everyone. I don't want my imperative, OO language turning into a landfill of pointless buzzwords/syntax sugar and littered with so much functional language idioms that it's forgotten what audience it is trying to serve. If I wanted a functional language, I would use one. I choose to use Java because of what it is and what it isn't.

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u/epta_ Sep 29 '18

What C# features do you not like?