Similar with me, background in mostly C/C++/Pascal, etc. - joined Google and had to write Java - what surprised me mostly were: Killing app due to GC stress, De

Similar with me, background in mostly C/C++/Pascal, etc. - joined Google and had to write Java - what surprised me mostly were: Killing app due to GC stress, Dependency Injection, Checked Exceptions and using various containers (map, set, etc.) as an interface without assuming concrete implementation (or maybe not so). Didn't graduate well from this "program", but give full respect to Java now. Back to C++ land for me, and it's been good.