Comments on: What I miss in Java

By: APIs and what not to do « The Shyam!

APIs and what not to do « The Shyam! — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:42:01 +0000

[...] new list. Now I realize that Java doesn’t make it easy to pass in functions (check my older article about this) as arguments, but what I really really want here is the ability to do [...]

By: Robert Konigsberg

Robert Konigsberg — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:25:33 +0000

Nice write-up. Yeah. I have been working in Java for many years now, I have many of the same complaints. Though, I don’t mind checked exceptions.

If you’re writing GWT, is there some clever use of JSNI to provide you the closure support you want?

By: Random Links #76 | YASDW - yet another software developer weblog

Random Links #76 | YASDW - yet another software developer weblog — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:54:40 +0000

[...] What I miss in Java Closures, Type inference, Checked Exceptions [...]

By: Tarski

Tarski — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:54:34 +0000

Hey, that’s a great summary of some of the things that could be improved upon in Java. JDBC really annoys me because more or less every single method throws a checked SQL exception, so all my DAOs have that extra line of indentation for the try/catch block.

By: Sakuraba

Sakuraba — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:20:21 +0000

I would love to have noop as an easier Scala for actual daily use.

By: Shyam

Shyam — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:20:55 +0000

I know, I have been looking into scala recently, and am liking what I see. Its pretty powerful, and Noop is being written completely in Scala (http://code.google.com/p/noop/)

By: Ray Racine

Ray Racine — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:10:36 +0000

Scala address all of those issues in some manner.

Closures
val myMap: Map[String, List[String]] = new HashMap
Type inference
And you can avoid null in almost all situations with the Option[T].
Exceptions are not checked.