Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech

Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech by noisy_boy on Friday May 16, 2025 @11:17PM (#44011783)

> I personally don’t care for Java, but I have bills so it’s always in my back pocket. Things happen , sometimes you need to write Java to eat.

I write Java to pay bills and my eyes and fingers thank me everyday for sparing them from a sea of if err != nil. I won't even go(!) into the iota stupidly compared to Java's enums.

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Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech by 999900000999 on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:01AM (#44028443)

I want to like Go.

I built a small phone app with it. The best way to describe it is incomplete. I think the philosophy is to make things more minimal?

A lot of frameworks don’t exactly do everything they need to.

I’ll still pick it over Rust, which seems to like punishing the developer.

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Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech by noisy_boy on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @12:50AM (#44037907)

I wrote an application in Go about couple of years ago that is still running in production without much maintenance. The language isn't bad as such + the single binaries are nice. But until they reduce the error handling noise (which I suspect they never will), I won't choose it voluntarily to write code. Rust is actually nice if one can accept cloning as a workaround. The error handling via ? is awesome in rust.

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