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submitted 1 year ago by aev@lemmy.sdf.org to c/java@programming.dev

Advances in the java programming language, version 16 and newer, slashed a million lines of code from my codebase. Maintaining my programs became easier overnight, due to this 1 secret trick: Records. 
Unfortunately version 16 was not LTS, so I had to wait until this year's release of version 21, which is LTS. 
 Go read the linked article. It explains Java Records in a very approachable manner.

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[-] pohart@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I can't count on one hand the number of times I've needed to write hashcode/equals in the last week. It's easy to do and records would make it harder to get wrong.

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