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Learning Java itself is simple. As a language it doesn't offer particularly anything that isn't already found in other languages, given you know other languages
by yason 16y ago
Learning Java itself is simple. As a language it doesn't offer particularly anything that isn't already found in other languages, given you know other languages.
The biggest effort would be to learn the libraries and you basically can't do that unless you're regularly writing code that interfaces them. But that you can do from Clojure or Scala or whatever language that runs on JVM.
- swah 16y agoFor someone that didn't grew with Java, what is hard is finding your way on the ecosystem. If you're a newcomer, and you're going to do a website in Python, you soon find out Django, which recommends you to use, lets say, Apache and PostgreSQL. You feel good because you got a sense, immediately, of what you need to know and install to run a website. Compare that with Java... I'm using Clojure with Jetty now, I haven't launched yet, and I'm afraid of things like application servers and doing everything with enormous amounts of XML.