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Except Java has a poor reputation (on the "fun to program in" scale) and not much in the way of intellectual growth for a programmer (in terms of new, effective
by tiles 16y ago
Except Java has a poor reputation (on the "fun to program in" scale) and not much in the way of intellectual growth for a programmer (in terms of new, effective paradigms for coding). This is a generalization of the opinions I've read about it, in addition to my own experience.
It's like hearing all your friends saying how much they hated Argentina, and how you would too. They might be wrong, or not, but you still trust them because they think the same way as you.
- aaronblohowiak 16y agoJava as a language is quite boring. Java as an ecosystem is interesting; its tooling, libraries, and business-centric culture are worthy of respect and some thought, even for us rubyistas. Some of the most generic software has been written in Java. In the flexibility vs expressivity spectrum, many Java libraries pick flexibility and it is neat to see how that is accomplished.