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Quite surprised by the negativity towards Java in this thread about Sublinks, a Java-based Lemmy alternative. Is it that bad? (programming.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago

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