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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We bow to your wisdom, wise gatekeeper

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you. If you bothered to read a 5 minutes tutorial instead of posting to 4chan, you could also reach this level of knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Don't be mad, you're the one that commented lol. It's like you're choosing to be upset

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I thanked you for your reply and suggested reading a tutorial. How does that make me mad and upset? You're acting weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's like 5 lines of trivial code

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Some of us try to understand what we're doing, rather than just copy/paste. It's easy to discount how difficult learning the basics of something is when you're already past it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And most IDEs will autogenerate it for you.

That said, I think it highlights everything I hate about Java:

public class MyClass {

Why does it need to be a class? I'm not constructing anything?

public static void main(String[] args) {

Why is this a method? It should be a top-level function. Also, in most cases, I don't care about the arguments, so those should be left out.

System.out.println("Hello world!");

Excuse me, what? Where did System come from, and why does it have an "out" static member? Also, how would I format it if I felt so inclined? So many questions.

And here are examples from languages I prefer:

C:

#include "stdio.h"

Ok, makes sense, I start with nothing.

int main() {

Makes sense that we'd have an entrypoint.

printf("Hello world");

Again, pretty simple.

Python:

print("Hello world")

Ok, Python cheats.

Rust:

fn main() {

Ooh, entrypoint.

println!("Hello world");

I have to understand macros enough to realize this is special, but that's it.

In C, Python, and Rust, complexity starts later, whereas Java shoves it down your throat.