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As a genomicist I'm half biologist, half data scientist. I think for the majority of my problems, it's the verbosity of Java that I just cannot stand. Maybe the

As a genomicist I'm half biologist, half data scientist. I think for the majority of my problems, it's the verbosity of Java that I just cannot stand. Maybe the instruction I've had in Java is flawed, but the amount of codewords to do anything has really kept me away from it. I don't really ever run into the same problem twice. I've never been able to write anything as concise for a one-off problem as I can using Python or Perl (or even Awk) for data wrangling.

hirako2000 7y ago
Scripts are superior in term of usability for what you do. Period. Java is for enterprise scale applications, where dozens or hundreds of developers contribute to the code base, for a decade or more. The boilerplate, the verbosity, strong types, the dependencies on complementary tools is what makes a large code base maintainable in the long run. If cared for. If you need to scrap a website a couple of times, convert text from one format to another. Yea just use some script. Throw away code that nobody but you will ever need to touch or even look at. It is possible to write a python, Perl, JavaScript, or even Php app at scale. It may require a bit more due diligence though. Frameworks have been introduced to help with that. The article is written by someone who doesn't fully understand Java. No need for interface to support injection. Interfaces are commonly written by CS graduates or uninformed long time OOP developers, but composition and DI have been around for over a decade. I stopped reading when the interface was pointed out as the only way to go.