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Exactly! I got my first job in Java after a few years as hobbyist programmer in other languages (mostly PHP and JavaScript but a few others too) and what struck
by littlestymaar 2y ago
Exactly! I got my first job in Java after a few years as hobbyist programmer in other languages (mostly PHP and JavaScript but a few others too) and what struck me was that the tooling was both mandatory and painful to use.
I wasn't fond of JavaScript (In particular, I never liked dynamic typing), but when I had the opportunity to work in node.js instead of Java I took it immediately, just to avoid the pain and suffering that the Java toolchain inflicted on me.
- FeloniousHam 2y agoJava is a language of bondage and discpline. And architectures. And myriad pointless interface definitions. And overblown class hierarchies for problems ill-suited to the OO paradigm. I started my career in Java, and worked in it for 20 years before I really started using Javascript in anger. I didn't (and don't) like Javascript, but the freedom for prototyping was a revelation. When Typescript appeared, I fell in love.