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oweiler on March 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

If verbosity would be a good thing Java wouldn't introduce language features/ library enhancements to cut down the noise (var, collection factories, switch expressions, records).

ludovicianul on March 20, 2023 [–]

Those features are being released to please a larger set of people. People were relying on 3rd party libraries anyway for similar capabilities.

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