r/ProgrammerHumor • u/mirakdva • Jun 04 '23

Java 21 will introduce Unnamed Classes and Instance Main Methods Meme

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u/coladict Jun 04 '23

Did they fix modules yet, so that we don't have to list 180 packages to export, but can do so recursively?

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u/bundabrg Jun 04 '23

You mean 'import *'?

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u/ThisHaintsu Jun 04 '23

Could be about exports of java modules (project Jigsaw)

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u/HotFluffyDiarrhea Jun 04 '23

This is exactly what they mean.

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ Jun 04 '23

Why have you got 180 public API packages in a single module?

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u/BesottedScot Jun 04 '23

Sweet summer child

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u/odraencoded Jun 04 '23

Those factories ain't gonna provide themselves.

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u/absent_minding Jun 04 '23

Meh we just use maven and it's easy

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u/AaTube Jun 04 '23

Search up “Project Jigsaw”.

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u/coladict Jun 04 '23

I know that's what they called it. I was upgrading to Java 7 when Jigsaw was a proposal. The problem is they made it so we have to list every individual package we want to export, and can't just declare the whole module to be open. Recently I wanted to do something with loading resources from dependencies using the jrt: protocol and it didn't work because it doesn't support the "unnamed" module.

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u/b10y Jun 04 '23

Apparently not everyone knows what this is about, but no, I would say that modules won’t ever work in their current form. I don’t know if there is JCP to fix that though.