I don't hate Java, seriously.

I just prefer spending my first hours with a language actually programming in it rather than fixing shitty uninformative errors and learning libraries that follow no standards.

Pour your salt below.

Java cannot find JVM

Java cannot find JDK

Incorrect JVM version

What's not to love?

It's not that we hate Java it's Java that hates us:

even a simple concept like being able to make a switch with a string was not implemented until year later even if it's done by few lines on the pre-compiler because Java is a "learning language" so you must know what you're doing, roughtly translated as you MUST suffer!!!

Another horrible aspect of Java is the documentation:

Javadoc is NOT a library documentation, you should provide a clue on how to use your library, not a link to buy your e-book guide!!

...and don't get me started on OOP nightmares:

i'm an OOP fan but sometimes you don't have to use it at a molecular level!

Ah the taste of pebkac in the morning

@sharktits Obviously if I've spent more time I would eventually get it to work and actually enjoy it.

But in the modern times when time is money - why waste time on languages that let you focus on programming instead of setup/fixing?

Honestly idfk what are you talking about, setting up java has always been like 3 clicks

@sharktits I thought the same after I've set it up, but then I saw how much my friends struggle compared to setting up python/C#/C++.

I'm going to call the Java lord, @ribchinski

No hate for java but no love for java. It's just not my cup of tea. I found my ❤️ python

@ribchinski I know how to use it - I have used it plenty.

Just stop assuming that someone is inexperienced because he doesn't like Java - it's not an educated guess.

Have you tried functional programming in Java? *shudders*

@ModernShoe haha.

@arpit1997 haha, that’s funny because you said cup of tea, and java is an example of a beverage. haha, I’ll just leave now.

I'm sure java can be done well, but I have yet to see it. Particularly in enterprise deployments(tomcat, jboss, weblogic, kafka, zookeeper) it's just a gigantic assblasting resource eater, for which the only cure is disabling it.

The java devs I have worked with simply add code to an existing gargantuan glob of code, usually to except individual records for processing. Terrible code, terrible policies, terrible ideas.

Like I said: maybe it can be done well, but I have never seen any evidence of that.

I prefer Go to Java myself!

I don't get any of you, Java is great! You just need to know it well enough, I always struggle with other languages because they don't have javadocs which are the best thing that has ever happened, I don't like to read guides, tutorials and so on, I just want to know what parameters does a method require and what type does it return because methods in Java are named in a way that describes exactly what they do.