Programming in Java, anything non-trivial is still, “death by a thousand cuts”.
This is why alternative languages running on top of the JVM will always be relevant (e.g., #Scala, #Kotlin, #Clojure, #JRuby), especially if they strive to be more than just Java++. Because Java++ is the same boring old Java.
The redeeming quality that Java has is the extreme backwards compatibility. But this doesn't really speak for the libraries that people use, upgrades are still hard & classpath hell is real.
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2023-09-18 15:17:51
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