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Re:Java Is Underhyped by jiggawatts on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:11AM (#26832422)
You just described how I feel about C++

I used to be a C++ wizard. I did things with that language that were just unspeakable. I used features so obscure that I don't even know if they have an official name.

Then after I dunno... the five hundredth nonsensical linker error, something in me just snapped and I just can't ever go back there.

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Re:Java Is Underhyped by omginternets on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:35AM (#26833677)
It seems like grappling with these arcane features feels productive, at first. You enter a flow state and after a while, something works that didn’t work before. It’s only when you step back and ask what actually got accomplished that you realize it’s time wasted.
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