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Re:The Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code by jayceedenton on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:48PM (#37932163)
Honestly, Java has a lot going for it. Amazing library ecosystem. Simple to learn, like Go but with essential quality-of-life improvements. Community without PLT sadists. Fast as all hell when written with care. Vast variety of jobs. Super-polished dev tooling.

I know there problems too (verbose, OOP and enterprise over-design, some horrible legacy systems) but Java is as strong as ever I think.

I'm interested, have you worked in Java before on a bad project and have scars, or have you built up a negative impression from afar?

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Re:The Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code by gorjusborg on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:45PM (#37933785)
..and a real debugger

> have you worked in Java before on a bad project and have scars

My guess is that the opinion is just used as a way to signal their status as a 'pro' developer much in the same way people used to hate on PHP/Perl/VB/etc. endlessly.

Ironically, this makes them look like amateurs posing as pro developers, as real pro developers demonstrate their status through their work, not their posts on social media.

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