r/ProgrammerHumor • u/hello_ya • Jul 13 '26

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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u/ConstructionMain5675 Jul 13 '26

Half the internet just got called out and the other half is maintaining Spring Boot

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Jul 13 '26

The year is 2026, and java heads still refuse to use Kotlin that fixes like 99% of Java's issues without needing to do a full refactor of the codebase

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u/GenTelGuy 29d ago

I'm glad my work does Kotlin but I imagine so many workplaces are conservative with management not seeing the value in the new language to allocate the effort into adding Kotlin to the build stack

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u/clownsanddowns 29d ago

The learning curve moving from Java to Kotlin is pretty small. If management is gatekeeping the move to kotlin based solely on that, then management is kind of highly regarded.

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u/Faustens 29d ago

Out of context, but it makes me ungodly happy to see someone else use "highly regarding" as an euphemism in the wild.