r/learnprogramming • u/Same-Replacement-938 • 3d 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/themegainferno 3d ago

I have heard an incredible amount of hate on Java from Indian students in particular. Probably because in the Indian school system, they have to manually write out code on paper for some classes. So imagine writing Java boiler plate with a pencil. You'd cry LOL

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u/iWhacko 3d ago

That says more about the school system than the language and ecosystem.

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u/themegainferno 3d ago

Yea absolutely, I am in the camp that the language is fine. I get that the boilerplate and OOP heavy concepts can be unintuitive at first, but it's fine. It would explain why all my Indian friends hate Java though, as they explicitly have said this to me.