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if you've coded more than 100 lines of Java in the last year. That's just it. If you're a regular here, you're less likely than the average programmer to have
by Zak 15y ago
if you've coded more than 100 lines of Java in the last year.
That's just it. If you're a regular here, you're less likely than the average programmer to have done that, and it's probably not really the code you want to talk about if you have. Java isn't especially popular for personal projects, startups or most other things people want to talk about or show off here.
Given some combination of first-class functions, various metaprogramming capabilities, dynamic typing and paradigms other than class-based OO, many of these patters disappear.
- davesims 15y agoSure, and a lot of them get codified and built in to HN-friendly frameworks -- again node.js, EventMachine, ActiveRecord, DataMapper...