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I feel so out of place when interviewing for firmware/embedded roles and the interviewers turn out to be java snobs. I honestly still have a hard time comprehen

• yazzku 2y ago
  It's really sad. I think Java is a rather ill-designed and boring language, not even worth learning for intellectual purposes, but it does have a mature ecosystem around databases, web services and stuff, and it has its use cases. Beyond that, it really beats me where this attitude comes from. I attribute it to living in your bubble and not exploring what the guys over on the other side of the fence are doing. This is why one should learn as many programming languages (and paradigms) as possible, even if you don't end up using half of them. It's like when those guys come out with a new "minimalist" CSS framework, and the bitch downloads a 2MB payload just to bootstrap your "hello world".