▲ 77 ▼ Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse (www.zdnet.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] XM34@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) You poor fool permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bradboimler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) Honestly, why? The ecosystem is rich and developed. Libraries for everything. Great documentation. Fantastic tooling. What am I missing out on? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] XM34@feddit.org -2 points 1 year ago Pretty much everything you just noted is incorrect! The ecosystem is a giant cestpool of badly written annotation hell, there is no usable documentation whatsoever, The tooling makes the experience barely better than living hell and writing Java feels like doing things worse than any other programming language out there because the language devs have severe C++ PTSD and refuse any useful programming concept from that language outright! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bradboimler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) Honestly, why? The ecosystem is rich and developed. Libraries for everything. Great documentation. Fantastic tooling. What am I missing out on? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] XM34@feddit.org -2 points 1 year ago Pretty much everything you just noted is incorrect! The ecosystem is a giant cestpool of badly written annotation hell, there is no usable documentation whatsoever, The tooling makes the experience barely better than living hell and writing Java feels like doing things worse than any other programming language out there because the language devs have severe C++ PTSD and refuse any useful programming concept from that language outright! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] XM34@feddit.org -2 points 1 year ago Pretty much everything you just noted is incorrect! The ecosystem is a giant cestpool of badly written annotation hell, there is no usable documentation whatsoever, The tooling makes the experience barely better than living hell and writing Java feels like doing things worse than any other programming language out there because the language devs have severe C++ PTSD and refuse any useful programming concept from that language outright! permalink fedilink source parent