How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by kamaal on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @11:47PM (#5366701)

The problem complicates further with the fact that IDE fever grips you very early on while using a language like Java.

When I started with eclipse + Java, within hours my perception of Java was that it was really more of 'fill up the blanks' rather than programming.

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Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @04:40AM (#5367437)

And I think that is a valuable lesson too. As a developer, the end-goal is to produce something of value, working software, not spend hours frowning over pointers and references. That was my early experience with C/C++, in any case. I did end up finishing my assignments (ranging from a fractal generator via a microcontroller operating an RC boat to a simple 3D FPS game), but I did feel a lot of overhead with non-functional things.

Of course, you get the same thing in Java when you first encounter a NullPointerException, ;)

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Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by pixelbath on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @02:32PM (#5370195)

This became clear to me when suggesting using a language other than that supported by Visual Studio to one of my previous teams. Their reply of, "Can't do it; no IntelliSense" shocked me completely.

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