Link to the thread: https://programming.dev/post/8969747
Hello everyone, I’ve followed this thread yesterday and noticed a few very negative reactions towards the choice of Java. I follow Java evolution from far away, but it seemed like it was evolving in a good direction since the last few years, and that performance-wise it would make sense for the back-end of a Lemmy-like platform.
Is it indeed the case? I was just curious to see that much negativity towards one of the most popular languages.
I think Java is fine and I still believe its the best beginner language, but once annotations and reflections took over, especially with stuff like Spring, Mapstruct, … . Everything turned into an unpredictable, memoryhogging, undebugable mess.
Its not really a fault of the language, just how many people (ab)use it! Having to help out in these projects from time to time I get why people hate it!