This so hard. I’m fearful when I hear things like Java being under hyped. Do people think this is the pinnacle of what software development is today? I think i

This so hard. I’m fearful when I hear things like Java being under hyped. Do people think this is the pinnacle of what software development is today? I think it’s made worse by the fact that you can program in another language, in a shitty codebase, and walk away saying “wow that language is very painful”. When in reality, it could’ve been the codebase and not the language. I see a lot of “but look at this successful project in language X”. Okay sure it was successful despite the language. Programmers are smart, we can make things work. Philosophically forcing developers into having to program in an OOP style, as opposed to having it as one of many tools, is a cardinal sin in my eyes. Same for forcing reference types. I’ll argue garbage collectors are bad too, but tbh that is more of a debatable topic.