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"...creating a “Hello Guestbook” type of application in Java is a simple, 10-minute affair." Lol, no.. 10 is the time it takes to configure your develop envir
by lightblade 15y ago
"...creating a “Hello Guestbook” type of application in Java is a simple, 10-minute affair."
Lol, no..
10 is the time it takes to configure your develop environment before you even start. Java isnt dead. While this is true, it is also an incredibly unproductive language. There are tons of boilerplate code that needs to be generated.
But it another way, the JVM ecosystem is alive and thriving through varies other dynamic language built to run on JVM. But the language itself is on the decline.
- Sandman 15y agoCould you elaborate on what you mean by "configuring the IDE"? I never had to configure Eclipse in any way to start a new project. I don't have much experience with NetBeans or IDEA, but I sincerely doubt that you need to do any special configuration before you can start a new project there either. If you're talking about workspace preferences, then you should know that these can be imported, so again, no complicated configuration is really needed.
- lightblade 15y agoBy configuring, I don't just mean the IDE. Generally, it's about setting up the project structure, writing your configuration XML, and fetching all the dependencies libraries. Usually, this involves the writing of Maven or Ant XML files, and generating the project from it. Sometimes, the IDE chokes and you have do it all be hand. Eclipse is notorious for having their plugins conflicting with each other. I switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ for that very reason. A lot of the modern programming languages offers package managers that dramatically improves this process. The only thing that Java has is Maven..and Maven pom files aren't just simple dependency management.