Happy Ace Day!!!

Happy ace day!!!

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Few things, although tbth I think I'm also just being a little bit grouchy not because the language is bad, but because it doesn't have anything cool to reward me for knowing it that I haven't already seen in other languages and also because the tooling has been a bitch to get accustomed to:

Mockito. I will strangle this stupid mocking framework. Don't get me wrong, I love testing, and I love mocking, but if I have to hear about ByteBuddy being unable to instrument a class one more time I'm going to aplode.

It is so so so object oriented. Everything does not need to be a class. I promise. I miss my little functional programming fun-times that I get to have in JS (as much as the language is fucked, it does let me play with my silly little functions :3 ), rust, and haskell.

Maven. BLEAGH. Builds are slow, painful, and not particularly reproducible.

This language is my reason for downloading an IDE again after years of vim/neovim. In fairness, I love vim, and I haven't really had enough time to get used to IntelliJ yet, however! Any program that requires me to delete its files and restart it multiple times a day is not a good program.

Equality, most notably with strings. Yes, I'll get used to doing it with a .equals() eventually, but the language operates on such a high level of abstraction that it feels really out of place for "foo" == "foo" to be false because they aren't the same object.

Stop the world GC. I think the reasons why this is a pain should be obvious.

This one is the most vague, but also the most real complaint I think: It feels like the languages does not give enough back for how strict it is and how much information you are able to feed it. I think it's pretty universally agreed upon that Java is really verbose, and I'm not necessarily opposed to that. I like type systems, I like languages that are able to provide me with guarantees at compile time, but Java is so much wordier while seemingly not giving me anything in return that I don't get from a much less verbose language.

Also, while I do have a few actual concrete things that I dislike, I recognize that it's as fine a language as any (and hey, it's incredibly stable and reliable!) and am mostly just grumbling on the internet because complaining is fun :P

i dislike java

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I am pleased. Thank you @brickwhartley!

Guys.... I just had a GREAT idea.

I admire tumblrs desire to not get shit for having all the options not add up to 100% but also this is objectively wrong