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0 pointshalfmatthalfcat4y ago0 comments

To be fair, Java has been evolving at a much more rapid pace over the past 5 years and has started to creep back into conversation. Pressure from Scala and Kotlin have been pushing it to evolve (for the better).

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javajosh4y ago

Oh yes, and I was glad to see recent Java GC improvements get some press. Java's big win over Ruby and Python is that Java is fully specified such that anyone could write a new implementation and mechanically check if it is compatible. (AFAIK both Ruby and Python say "my implementation is the specification".)

(JavaScript is a bit of an oddity since it has a formal language spec, but NOT a formal virtual machine spec.)

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