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It wasn't exactly fabulous back then - 'Enterprise' java was a quagmire of mediocrity in the 00s. I quite like it now in some ways, its packaging system allows
by Nursie 4y ago
It wasn't exactly fabulous back then - 'Enterprise' java was a quagmire of mediocrity in the 00s.
I quite like it now in some ways, its packaging system allows for comparatively rapid development, you can find libraries for a lot of stuff, and it is quite an expressive language. In other ways it's in a sad state - the reflexive use by most projects of quite heavy frameworks that purport to do a lot of work for you and then fail at various edge cases while adding multiple layers of opaque magic and tons of transitive dependencies... it's less than brilliant. And startup times are an issue.
Go is nice too. It has some shortcomings in the breadth of its ecosystem, but I'm sure that will grow with time.
- traceroute66 4y ago> 'Enterprise' java was a quagmire of mediocrity in the 00s. Yes, I agree. But at the time, fighting with Tomcat stack traces was often still preferable to a number of other options at the time. Its obviously been a while, but IIRC for web stuff if you were not a JAR shop, then you were (probably) using ColdFusion or PHP, because the Microsoft badge couldn't be trusted at the time to be put on the web. And back then PHP was v4/v5 where it deservedly gathered community hate unlike today's pretty decent v7/v8. ColdFusion was generally ok though, but I think its largely going the way of Java these days, overtaken by better tech.