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It's not the language that gave me PTSD but the userbase, "best practices" and culture around it. Java itself is great these days.
by TurboHaskal 3y ago
It's not the language that gave me PTSD but the userbase, "best practices" and culture around it.
Java itself is great these days.
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agoIMO, Java won't be decent until Valhalla is completed. The broken type system is a really big downside compared to C#.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI was going to say, Java is fine, it's the architectures and mountains of code spread across loosely coupled architectures that does it for me. I wouldn't mind a modern day Java project, as long as it's free of the 20+ year old dogmatic practices. I'd have to unlearn a lot of those myself, probably.
- polotics 3y agoAlso the culture of those that stuck to Java because they didn't have the curiosity to learn anything else...
- marginalia_nu 3y agoWell yeah...? That's a big part of why I mostly use Java, so I don't have to constantly figure out basic stuff in whatever language/framework that's hot this week. The language is just a tool. It's not an ends in itself. I can spend that time building things instead. If I have an idea I can implement it. Downstream dependencies are rock solid, and the language changes at a manageable pace. Like I did some stuff in python the other week, and every other line I wrote had to stop several minutes and figure out basic syntax stuff. Just a pain in the ass. Like I probably could take the time and freshen up on python and be up to speed in a few weeks, but that's a few weeks I'm not moving toward my goals.