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> What matters is how quickly you can get code to do what you want... This is the falsest statement I have read in a long time. Maybe, if you write once and t

by haspok 3y ago

> What matters is how quickly you can get code to do what you want... This is the falsest statement I have read in a long time. Maybe, if you write once and then throw it away (like a use-once shell script). Otherwise you will have to maintain your code, and then readability and safety trump everything else. If not, it is about performance, but then a lot of time is spent on fine-tuning.

ActorNightly 3y ago
And yet, every single java enterprise project has a shitload of files, and compiling and running all of those takes significant time, in the 10s of seconds, all because of how Java is structured. Trying to edit something means you have to dig through layers of inheritance into factories and injection frameworks, debugger is a slow piece of shit that almost needs ide wrapper to run, and as far as safety goes, people seem to have forgotten about log4shell, REALLY quick. You can believe that strong OOP and all the theoretical bullshit in JDK21 matters, but in the future, Java developers will be the first to go as the world moves towards much smaller dev teams that are well versed in a super high level, AI powered language+compiler, where you can knock out production web apps in a day.