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		martinp on April 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000) Records were introduced in Java 14 [1]. An immutable DTO, with minimal boilerplate, that still behaves a class. Example: record Point(int x, int y) {} [1] https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/records-come-to-java

Twisol on April 7, 2021 [–]

They were a preview feature until Java 16, though, so they probably haven't seen wide use yet.

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/395

Java 16 was only released within the last few weeks! (Gradle still has some trouble compiling it or running on it; Gradle 7 should be dropping soon with explicit Java 16 support.)

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