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It's not perfect for anything but it's very robust and dependable. The API's are comprehensive, well thought through, to this day it's bizarre nobody has copie
by jariel 5y ago
It's not perfect for anything but it's very robust and dependable.
The API's are comprehensive, well thought through, to this day it's bizarre nobody has copied Javadoc. Python docs drive me mad.
For a script - Python. For the web Typescript. For low level C or Rust.
But Java is quite powerful for anything that stretches in between: not the fastest to write, but generally fast, the tooling is robust, the performance is quite good usually.
And I love that it's uncool.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> to this day it's bizarre nobody has copied Javadoc. JavaDoc-style structured documentation in comments with toolchain to generate user docs from a combination of the comments and the associated class/method/function signatures has been widely applied; Doxygen and JSDoc obviously owe a lot to it, as do Sandcastle (for .NET), Rdoc/YARD for Ruby, Sphinx/autodoc (for Python), etc. I’d be surprised if there is a major language today for whuch there isn’t at least one JavaDoc-inspired documentation generator.