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.

  • TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.pageEnglish
    17·
    9 months ago

    “Java bad” is a pretty long standing meme. I would guess that most peoples’ only experiences with java are in school and in monstrous, ancient corporate codebases.

    • Blaze@discuss.onlineOP
      3·
      9 months ago

      I guess. I learned a few things though, so it seems that new version of Java are optimized so that their footprint is similar to Go? That seems a nice improvement from a few years back

    • 佐藤カズマ@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Speaking anecdotally, I’ve yet to see a modern Java codebase. But again, that’s just anecdotally, and I’m (truly) sure they exist. Just that I’ve not had the fortune of being around it. Is that a bad thing?

      • andnekon@programming.dev
        16·
        9 months ago

        Java is a boilerplate-driven language designed for writing verbose, object oriented, instant-legacy code