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Re:Six years of Go by coldtea on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:55PM (#10542426)
>It's funny that you mention Java because I have always avoided learning Java. Even from afar it grosses me out as a language.

May I guess you're either some old Lisp/Smalltalk etc veteran, or, much more probably, someone who entered IT after, say 2005?

Because back in the day very few thought of Java as "gross" -- it was greeted as a welcome change from the existing landscape which at its best was something like C++.

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Re:Six years of Go by artursapek on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:30PM (#10542661)
I'm 23, I haven't been around that long :)
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Re:Six years of Go by coldtea on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @06:26PM (#10543446)
Yeah, so the second case, someone who entered IT after 2005!

I guessed so, because back in the day (1995-early 00's) most devs outside of seasoned functional etc veterans (who were extremely few) or hardcore systems guys, saw Java in mostly positive light, and never considered it "boring" back then.

The change (for new devs to consider Java "boring" and lacking in features) happened sometime after 2005, with Rails entering, Javascript catching up, C# getting more features with 2.0 and 3.0.

(Consider than back then Scala, Go, Clojure et al weren't even started, and AJAX had just been made mainstream).

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