Le ven. 23 févr. 2024 à 13:44, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:23 PM Romain Manni-Bucau > <rmannibu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > @Elliotte while you are pretty right in terms of *compile* features but > it > > ignores the biggest criteria for any ASF project : the community. Even if > > silly, attracting people with Java 8 is born dead today (to illustrate it > > just ask somebody to no more use "var" to do a PR for ex, he will start > to > > "pfffff" ;)). > > Going off on a tangent but I would reject any PR that showed up in my > code review queue that used "var", regardless of JDK version. It's an > abomination that should never have been added to Java. It prioritizes > a trivial speed up in writing code at the cost of a significant slow > down in reading and debugging code. Working in Python for the last > couple of years has thoroughly convinced me that strong, explicit > compile time types are the right way to go. I've seen what happens > when you don't have them, and it's not fun. > I assume you never used it to write that cause you don't loose compile checks, you are not slower to read nor debug but generally faster cause readability is increased and if you miss the 35 char long type your preferred IDE will compensate that easily. It is literally similar to streams or even plain old java, it depends the habit of the coder but if we consider that we would also prevent foreach usage. You can also reverse it and write the exact same sentence on "not using var", how slow it is to read such a code where half of the chars don't bring any useful data or encourage palantir formatting to break on multiple lines a single statement. So IMHO this is not something right to think nor even consider. Ultimately the point is not "do we think it is good or not", it is literally that if we go against the move then we go against the community - keep in mind we should probably not be the primary citizens there - and therefore I'm not sure the point to be at Apache if we don't care about our community. I'm clearly to stay there and enable people to join rather than staying alone 10 years ago (happy anniversary java 8 ;)). > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold > elh...@ibiblio.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
