Java JDK 10 Reaches General Availability With Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Java JDK 10 Reaches General Availability With Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler

JDK 10 has reached general availability as the first Java release under Oracle's new six-month release model...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Java-JDK-10-Released

[uid313]

I hope this really soon comes to Android, because coding in Java 6, 7, and 8 is really shit!
No type inference, no properties, no lambdas. Coding Java is a pain!
There is Kotlin for Android too, but it's weird.
I would really love C# though, its much nicer than Java.

[Delgarde]

I hope this really soon comes to Android, because coding in Java 6, 7, and 8 is really shit!
No type inference, no properties, no lambdas. Coding Java is a pain!

Not sure what you mean by "properties" in this context, but lambdas are present in Java 8 (it was one of the biggest new features of that version). The new type inference stuff from JDK10 does look promising though...

[uid313]

Not sure what you mean by "properties" in this context, but lambdas are present in Java 8 (it was one of the biggest new features of that version). The new type inference stuff from JDK10 does look promising though...

By properties I mean getter/setters. In Java you have to create a set method, and a get method, then a private field to back them. Much easier with C# properties which is a shorthand for that.

[oleid]

sounds awfull. haskel ftw!

[Vistaus]

I hope this really soon comes to Android, because coding in Java 6, 7, and 8 is really shit!
No type inference, no properties, no lambdas. Coding Java is a pain!
There is Kotlin for Android too, but it's weird.
I would really love C# though, its much nicer than Java.

Not sure why it needs to come to Android when Fuchsia is already shaping up quite nicely. Fuchsia does away with ART.

[DanLamb]

I hope this really soon comes to Android, because coding in Java 6, 7, and 8 is really shit!
No type inference, no properties, no lambdas. Coding Java is a pain!
There is Kotlin for Android too, but it's weird.
I would really love C# though, its much nicer than Java.

- Lambdas: Lambdas have been 100% supported in Java and the Android tools for a while now, so that's not a reasonable complaint.
- Type inference: Kotlin has much better type inference than C#. Kotlin supports type inference for function return types and class variables or properties.
- Properties: Kotlin has much better properties than C# with a much cleaner syntax. Android developers do have to use getter/setter methods for Android widgets classes like android.widget.Button or android.widget.CheckBox you have to use getter/setter methods, but that's not a big problem.

Next, Android tries to be flexible regarding developer choice. Most Android apps/games use some non-Java framework. If you really want specifically C#, Unity is great and wildly popular. And I'm sure people do complain that C# sucks and doesn't have type inference or properties of Kotlin/Scala or the functional features of Haskell.

[Delgarde]

By properties I mean getter/setters. In Java you have to create a set method, and a get method, then a private field to back them. Much easier with C# properties which is a shorthand for that.

Ah yes, I'm familiar with the feature, then. I just thought that since two of your three items are present in newer Java features, you were implying that a native property syntax was also a thing...

[Ieugen]

Not sure what you mean by "properties" in this context, but lambdas are present in Java 8 (it was one of the biggest new features of that version). The new type inference stuff from JDK10 does look promising though...

For nice properties like C# look at project lombok. We use it extensively to reduce code clutter.

[DanLamb]

For nice properties like C# look at project lombok. We use it extensively to reduce code clutter.

C# properties are horrible.

For better OOP style "properties" just use Kotlin or Scala.

Or if you really want to stick with Java, find better designs that don't require boilerplate. I write tons of Java code and avoid the issue.

I'm very much looking forward to Java catching up to Kotlin/Scala with pattern matching (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/305) and switch expressions (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/325) and fix generics so that they work with primitives (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/218) and that they work with instanceof (reification).