I do believe that number will go down in the coming releases; things like valhalla will allow us to pack data representations much more efficiently after all. the only things that really benefit from object identity are behaviors, not data.

did that to make it a bit clearer what I was really optimistic about, but I unfortunately can't edit the hn post itself.

it's a matter of standardisation again. Java's standard is like C++; ponderous. The record pattern jep indicates in final footnotes that something like unapply may be in the works, so all hope is not lost.

I did title it that way at first but ended up changing it at the last second, ended up shunting it off course.

It's a great post. Thank you for writing it!

thank you for giving it a read!

Ill add that in, somehow forgot about that golden bit of info

With valhalla, we will have explicit nullability as well, so that problem will also be handled.

That is true, but there are many who have discussed that. I wanted to bring some attention to the new syntactic changes Java brings that can help with implementing better logic.

Not by that much... the problem is Java's build systems. Theyre what complicate and slow down java development 90% of the time.

Oracle has definjtely done bad things; mismanagement of java is not one of them. They got a pile of crap and turned it into something competent.

What a marvel of engineering.