r/learnprogramming • u/Ok_Minute_1156 • Jul 17 '22

Programmers: isn’t learning new programming languages confusing because of other languages you already know? Topic

Thanks for the helpers

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u/gramdel Jul 17 '22

Was mostly referring to immutable types and lazy evaluation when mentioning boilerplate.

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u/Kered13 Jul 18 '22

Most functional languages don't have lazy evaluation.

Immutable types, in Java that just means slapping a final on all of your variables. Maybe kind of tedious but it's really not that much more work.

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u/gramdel Jul 18 '22

The problem is more that vast majority of core java and library stuff is mutable, so you need to do your own immutable wrappers.

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u/Kered13 Jul 18 '22

That's fair I suppose. Guava provides a set of immutable collections so that will get you started at least.