Seriously, there's a ton of voodoo in there. Things break in surprising ways, and it's hard to synthesize new knowledge based on prior experience. I've written

Seriously, there's a ton of voodoo in there. Things break in surprising ways, and it's hard to synthesize new knowledge based on prior experience. I've written a nontrivial amount of Java including a sizable Android app (aside: thanks Dobrow!) and still can't complete basic tasks like mutexing, sockets, or file IO without looking them up on StackOverflow. Eclipse is the only thing that makes that language's rigidity even barely tractable for me.