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Re:Java Is Underhyped by pydry on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:28AM (#26833035)
There's a big difference between "OOP is cool" (which Java didn't invent) and "OOP ALL of the things".
Re:Java Is Underhyped by doctor_eval on Saturday April 17, 2021 @05:18AM (#26842826)
But Java clearly didn’t “OOP all the things”, unlike earlier languages like Smalltalk. Java primitives are not objects (despite the fact that I often found myself wishing they were), and static methods are actually just functions. These days Java even supports first-class functions.

I know not everyone will agree with me, and that’s fine, but I always found Java to be far more pragmatic than, for example, C++, which well and truely predated Java.