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Sven Efftinge
Personal blog · blog.efftinge.deprogramming
Sven Efftinge writes sven efftinge's blog, a personal blog at blog.efftinge.de about programming. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sven Efftinge's blog for posts on Xtend, a Java-targeting language, including a comparison with Java 8 lambdas and a piece on IDE support in language design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Try Xtend: http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/ (Also see: http://blog.efftinge.de/2013/10/xtend-android-sneak-preview.... )
Comment linking /2013/10/xtend-android-sneak-preview.html
on “Groovy 2.2 released”Submitted Eclipse Xtext Goes IntelliJ IDEA as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"A preprocessor to give me Java 8 lambda syntax would probably solve all the issues I have with Java right now." Xtend seems to do this and more http://blog.efftinge.de/2012/12/java-8-vs-xtend.html
Comment linking /2012/12/java-8-vs-xtend.html
on “Using Scala to handle exponential growth at a startup”Submitted Java 8 vs. Xtend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHaving IDE support is a feature of a language. You have to design your language so that IDE support is possible [1]. Most dynamically typed languages and functional languages fail in this regard and if you use such a language you always are jumping between API docs and your editor. [1] http://blog.efftinge.de/2011/04/dear-java-killers.html
Comment linking /2011/04/dear-java-killers.html
on “The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler”You might want to have a look at Xtend2. Xtend2 is a complete language build with the upcoming Xtext version 2.0. Xtend2 offers dynamic dispatch functions and binds and compiles to Java. Furthermore, it inherits other nice language features like operator overloading, closures, higher-order functions and a rich switch statement from the expression language library Xbase (also part of Xtext 2.0). You can define your o…
Comment linking /2011/04/eclipse-xtend-beta-available.html
on “Xtext - Language Development Framework”