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This, but also I suspect a lot of people that claim to dislike Java are tainted by it's framework heavy ecosystem especially early-mid 2000s. The language itse
by meddlepal 7y ago
This, but also I suspect a lot of people that claim to dislike Java are tainted by it's framework heavy ecosystem especially early-mid 2000s.
The language itself is fairly clean and very pragmatic.
- meruru 7y agoFWIW the essays I mentioned are from the early 2000s. Java's Cover is from 2001: http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html
- parasubvert 7y agoThat essay has proven to be astonishingly wrong. It’s 18 years later and I suspect he’d say the same things about Golang.
- parasubvert 7y agoPossibly, though Java these days is largely “Spring”.