Generating a Java program with 90% less code

Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by TheFiend7 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:16PM (#21704194)

It sits on top of our own IP database which is 6 figures in lines and is written in C++. Java has fancy bells and whistles when it comes to IDE's, but that's all they are.

I just think it's foolish to think Java is the only language that can handle large codebases. I mean just look at the linux kernel.

EDIT: Removed comment about processing capabilities because it's irrelevant to the discussion. I left my original comments about lines and the IDE though.

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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by mlazos on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:00PM (#21704860)

I don’t think anyone is saying Java is the only one they’re saying because it has good IDE support it is better than many other languages, e.g. python. I tend to agree. Once a python program gets over 20k lines (I touched a program like that before) it’s an absolute nightmare to maintain and without type annotations can be near impossible to figure out what is going on.

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Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code by nikanj on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:22PM (#21704301)

The size of data processed, or the number of nodes running, has almost no effect on the quality of the IDEs.

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