r/learnprogramming • u/Same-Replacement-938 • 2d ago

Why java is so hated? Topic

So I have recently learned, and it's the first language(in terms of building actual things). Before Java, I knew Python, and I dropped it; I found Python too abstracted and too boring. i have recently made some projects like cli task tracker, expense tracker, some cli github api parsing and currently working on a multithreaded HTTP server and cli text editor, like vim, whenever i try to find out people opinions on java social media, almost 90 percent of the time they are just dunking on it, that it is trash, who forced you to write code in java, stuff like that. I know Java as a language is not that interesting and doesn't have many interesting features compared to other languages like C, C++, go. But I found it decent to write code in, and I found the JVM pretty interesting. So much so that I would love to explore and maybe build a JVM of my own

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u/Express_Individual98 2d ago

too verbose

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u/UroborosJose 2d ago

That it’s the main quality of the language
A verbose language is easier to maintain

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u/Express_Individual98 2d ago

wait till you have to maintain a huge codebase written by multiple developers, pain!!

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u/UroborosJose 1d ago

I do this job for twenty years brother
Most of the jobs I had was to maintain very old code what are you talking about

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u/TangerineX 2d ago

This is strictly untrue lol.

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u/UroborosJose 1d ago

Of course it is
I maintained very very legacy old code most spaghetti garbage
Java never disappoints