Yep you got a point, I hate streams either.(especially when using streams
be not necessary.)

Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com> 于2024年2月23日周五 22:43写道:

> From my experience people hating var will also hate completionstage and at
> some point streams (or they willfully embrace them just using forEach which
> is a counter usage IMHO).
> Every time I digged it was 100% a knowledge+(IT) culture thing.
> But once again, I'm not sure it is about us - if so I would say I don't
> care much - but how attracting we can be since our community is not crazy
> active outside.
>
> This is for an an opportunity we should take IMHO.
>
> Now if we just want to speak about style and lib usage I guess we have
> enough threads showing we all diverge so not sure there is a way to
> converge anytime - nor the need to be honest.
>
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> Le ven. 23 févr. 2024 à 15:10, Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> a
> écrit :
>
> > Make love not var!
> >
> > T
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 3:09 PM Xeno Amess <xenoam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I hate var.
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net>
> > > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 9:52:08 PM
> > > To: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Java version for Maven
> > >
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > Some more stats based on 2nd package from Brian
> > >
> > > https://gist.github.com/cstamas/8207f8d70882090a1c63cdedc256ec56
> > >
> > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:08 PM Elliotte Rusty Harold <
> > elh...@ibiblio.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes, with var you still get type checks, unlike in Python. But I have
> > > > wasted so much time debugging Python code simply because the type of
> a
> > > > local variable wasn't right there in the declaration that I remain
> > > > unconvinced var was ever a good idea. I have been convinced by
> > > > experience that implicitly typed local variables dramatically reduce
> > > > debugging speed. This isn't something I believed two years ago. Back
> > > > then I mostly didn't think about it. But since then I have worked a
> > > > lot with implicit typing, and it is painful.
> > > >
> > > > IDEs are not a full solution. They're better in Java than Python, I
> > > > admit, but I spend more time reading code in tools like Github and
> > > > Critique than in IDEs.
> > > >
> > > > I don't think banning var goes against the community in any way. It's
> > > > simply another style choice for improved readability and
> > > > maintainability, like everything spotless and checkstyle currently
> do.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:58 PM Romain Manni-Bucau
> > > > <rmannibu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 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
> > > > > >
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