I wonder what that terrible experience was and how it could be so bad. After all I've had bad experiences with apps written in C, C++ and Python but I'd still u

I wonder what that terrible experience was and how it could be so bad. After all I've had bad experiences with apps written in C, C++ and Python but I'd still use these tools when necessary. To write off something as huge as the JVM and its ecosystem because of one bad experience seems iffy. I think the reality is there are a lot of people for whom hatred of anything Java is a fashion statement, a strange geek form of virtue signalling. Oracle is not significantly different to Microsoft or Apple after all - they are all companies that like money and have sued Android related companies over IP rights to obtain lots more of it. If anything Oracle's moral case is a lot stronger as Java represents a much greater investment than FAT32 or rounded rectangles or the other stuff these firms demanded ridiculous sums for. Yet hackers are just A-OK with praising and promoting VS Code, macOS, Swift, etc. I don't personally mind. The more people who ignore the Java ecosystem for fashion related reasons, the more my competitors reduce their strength and relevance. If your senior dev friend is off writing code in Elixir and struggling with low performance VMs and tiny library ecosystems, I'll be outpacing them with better VMs, better tools and a huge ecosystem of open source libraries. No problem!