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Comment Java is cool (Score 2) 292

by cosmicvisitors on Saturday October 08, 2011 @12:32PM (#37648370) Attached to: Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java

There are some pretty cool developments going on in Java lately, e.g. LINQ, functions and reified generics. Why wait for the JCP when there are enough mad people out there who will implement all the tools that Java is perceived to lack? See for example: https://github.com/nicholas22/jpropel-light

Submission + - Java LINQ (github.com) 3

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nicholas22

on Friday October 07, 2011 @07:34PM

nicholas22 writes: "A Java library providing LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) has been developed, using a Scala-style programming library called lombok-pg, that supports features not found in standard JDK libraries, such as extension methods, yield coroutines and functions.

Examples (valid Java):
String[] names = new String[] { "james", "john", "john", "eddie" }.where(startsWith("j")).distinct();
char[] alphabet = new Character('A').to(new Character('Z')).unbox();

This Java code would take approximately 4x the number of lines of code."

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