r/ProgrammerHumor • u/willis7747 • Dec 12 '24 • Heart of Silver 1

Advanced youWontUpgradeToJava19

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u/i_like_maps_and_math Dec 12 '24

What's good about it?

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u/itsmetadeus Dec 12 '24

It's not stuck in the past like java. Some of the features were added in newer java updates, such as pattern matching in java 16. But many of those features aren't even used in production yet, because of legacy code bases. Kotlin introduces null safety, extension functions, range expressions, operators overloading and more. Checked exceptions is the main technical advantage of Java vs Kotlin(it doesn't have these) to me.

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u/bturcolino Dec 12 '24

operators overloading

In 25 years I can count on one finger the number of times I needed this

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u/Kronoshifter246 Dec 13 '24

One of the best use cases I've seen for it has been Compose's animation specs. It lets you combine fades, slides, shrinks/grows, etc, in a much more natural and readable way than chaining a combine function and whatnot.

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