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Re:Java Is Underhyped by Nursie on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:50AM (#26831786)
I'm not going to argue there are lots of ridiculous patterns out there, which seem to be embraced and encouraged by the various frameworks that a lot of developers seem to rely on.

Why bother setting things up explicitly in the way you want when you can declare things as injected, other things as singletons, and then have no real idea why it all went horribly wrong?

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Re:Java Is Underhyped by BiteCode_dev on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:07AM (#26831893)
It's starting to be the same in Python though.

Inertia is huge in our industry, and the HN bubble doesn't gives a good picture of it.

Behind corporate firewalls I now see things done the way they were 10 years ago: packaging, string handling, concurrency...

I assume it's the curse of being popular and old.

And java has been popular for longer than Python, so inertia is even stronger. It doesn't matter if it has lambda since V8 if people still believe the best practice is to pass fat objects around.

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