Hacker News Reader

Comment by jjjeii3 | Hacker News Reader

Java devs are like: Why bother to develop anything new if we can just copycat every single feature from C# without even changing their spec a bit...

C# records released last year:

   record Book(string Title, int Id);

New java records:

   record Book(String title, int id)

View on HN

I was not aware that Microsoft invented algebraic data type.

C# started adding records when Java was already working on them.

So if you insist on someone borrowing, it is this time the other way around.

Sounds like how C# got started :)

By being slightly behind, you get to learn from those languages that live on the bleeding edge. The laggards get to benefit from all the corner cases found and mistakes committed.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com