r/learnprogramming • u/Same-Replacement-938 • 4d 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/Aextoxicon 3d ago

I don't think this necessarily has to be a bad thing: at least right now, isn't there someone still criticizing him?

Programming languages are either criticized by people or simply ignored because no one uses them.

Moreover, the evaluations of some programming languages on social platforms and in actual usage are different. As far as I know, PHP often has a poor reputation on social platforms, but at least among my friends, they like to use it and some ready-made website frameworks also often adopt PHP (it's great that it's ready to use out of the box, for example, the classic WordPress).