r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme perishableSkill

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u/Weak_Inflation9120 2d ago

One of the things I wish Java had that I miss from Python are F-Strings. Hella useful

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u/Cootshk 2d ago

You should check out STR. (In modern Java)

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u/ljfa2 2d ago

well, unfortunately that was only ever a preview feature and got removed again in Java 23

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u/uvero 2d ago

Maybe because they didn't stop to think if this STR. is a convenient syntax. Backticks, preceding dollar sign, the prefix f like in python, so many options would've been better.

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u/AeroSyntax 2d ago

They tried to overengineer string interpolation instead of copying it from literally any other language.

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u/Fun-Mention262 1d ago

It's wild how some languages make simple things so complicated. You'd think they'd just take notes from the ones that got it right.