Re:Go is Google's language, not ours
by mieseratte on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @08:37AM
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> Java developers are some of the most conservative developers around.
You're right, there are loads of conservative Java developers. It's one of the the things that makes me love using the language.
> The irony is that people are now abusing "aspects" and "dependency injection" via frameworks like Spring that bring everything but the kitchen sink, but then the language becomes effectively dynamic, as via those annotations all static type safety goes out the window.
> Misconceptions mostly.
But drop the strawman argument and borderline ad hominem. It'll do you better.
Re:Go is Google's language, not ours
by emj on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @11:18AM
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Spring is terrible in that sense, and you do find professionals arguing for Spring and strongly typed language. That said it's not an argument I've ever heard before being part of a Spring centric shop.
You're right, there are loads of conservative Java developers. It's one of the the things that makes me love using the language.
> The irony is that people are now abusing "aspects" and "dependency injection" via frameworks like Spring that bring everything but the kitchen sink, but then the language becomes effectively dynamic, as via those annotations all static type safety goes out the window.
> Misconceptions mostly.
But drop the strawman argument and borderline ad hominem. It'll do you better.