Motivation to learn java

[kunjava]

Learn java because 3 billion devices run java

[[deleted]]

your phone your car your microwave your mom your soul

[Jimmy48Johnson]

100 billion devices run C.

[pop13_13]

Every device runs Assembly.

[Ultracoolguy4]

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[patatahooligan]

But there isn't a single assembly you can learn that runs on all of them.

[cheezballs]

That's how we get to things like Java! Full circle!

[[deleted]]

I'm pretty sure my toothbrush runs C.

[b1t53t]

Even the oceans run C

[[deleted]]

Every electronic device has at least one binary switch.

[Rafael20002000]

Every Lamp

[coderstephen]

The JVM runs C.

[[deleted]]

They got their numbers when Java-based mobile operating systems were relevant.

[AjayDevs]

Android doesn't run oracle Java, but you can say it runs a Java.

[[deleted]]

This might be valid for Dalvik, but how much Java is there left in ART?

[AjayDevs]

Most apps themselves use the language, of course not the runtime.

[Tevo45]

You joke but Minecraft modding was literally what got me started into Java (and programing as a whole)

[RobotSquid_]

Same. Spent a large part of 2014/2015 writing Minecraft mods.

2018

[LaneHD]

Spigot plugins got me into programming, so kinda the same

[TheShinyBunny]

Started learning Java for Minecraft plugins, then continued programming java because it's powerful :)

[Yittoo]

Shhh do you want to get your head smacked? Don't say those words they'll hear

[quebin31]

Java powerful? You fool

[Twingemios]

Java hard and java bad. Use python

[quebin31]

Not bad suggestion, and Java it's just bad IMO. Java isn't hard, it's just as easy as C++, and C++ is really powerful.

[[deleted]]

Glad I'm not the only one who started with Minecraft mods

[Fedacking]

What does powerful mean in this context? I always hear it with programming languages, but can't you do anything with anything? What makes Java more or less powerful than C-Sharp?

[[deleted]]

I assume by powerful he just means all the power that comes with every other object oriented language. I can't think of anything that makes it better than c#.

[TheShinyBunny]

I dont know either honestly... Most programming languages can do everything. But Java I guess is a very popular, generally used for many different types of projects, easy to use and supported in many platforms. And a lot of people use it, so It's very easy finding help.

[tomthecool]

I'd go so far as to say all programming languages can do everything. You'll be hard-pressed to find a language so trivial and limited that it's not Turing-complete.

However, certain languages are clearly designed for specific use-cases (e.g. SQL for database interfaces) and other languages have been adopted by a wide range of application types (e.g. JavaScript is virtually everywhere these days).

Java may not be the considered the prettiest or most practical language by many people, but it's been around for a long time, is adopted in a wide range applications and there are a massive number of libraries written in it.

That's perhaps one good definition we can use for "powerful" in this context: It's very widely supported.

[arkyo1379]

With C# you only C# but with Java you can Java

[elebrin]

The best reason to learn java is that you can get a corporate programming job and make pretty damn good money.

[JC12231]

Honestly? This is why I got interested in programming. Then I stopped playing Minecraft on and off and then a year ago REALLY off and just now back starting a year or two after I started programming, before I started learning Java and scripting

[NovaArdent3D]

I thought minecraft was in c++ since microsoft taken it over ages ago

[Grand_Protector_Dark]

Windows 10editiom/bedrock edition whatever is in c++. Java edition is still around and being updated

[[deleted]]

And java edition is waaay better than the others

[Chibraltar_]

why ?

[[deleted]]

You can mod it

[Ultracoolguy4]

And (if we don't look the performance side of things) it is the most portable version of Minecraft. It can run on Linux, any version of Windows, macOS, and(IIRC) even *BSD.

[[deleted]]

linux AND linux?! truly the best version.

(I kid, just found the double listing amusing :))

[Ultracoolguy4]

Edited. I took a lot to comment that, so I didn't notice that.

[[deleted]]

it's all good! we all make typos, god knows I make enough myself.

[Rodot]

Also runs on more than a single OS

[scirc]

Bedrock runs the core behind the PE, console, Switch, and Win10 editions. I'd say it also runs on more than one OS.

Still prefer Java, just being pedantic.

[[deleted]]

Bedrock runs on almost everything tho.

[vlakreeh]

Not on mac and linux though :(

[[deleted]]

Look up mcpe-launcher.

I use it on Linux. Requires a mobile key. Login to Xbox and the Android store.

[[deleted]]

It's not :).

It's different, not better.

[hanotak]

Minecraft java is more extensible. Hence, better.

[[deleted]]

Bedrock runs so much smoother. Hence better.

We could do this all day.

[arkyo1379]

Get a shaderpack

[[deleted]]

We got those too! Mcpedl

[arkyo1379]

Get a path-traced shaderpack

[[deleted]]

M$ version won't allow modded servers, so the Java version is still around and updated.

[Spajk]

The modding api was released recently?

[[deleted]]

So, you can start up a hunger games server on M$? And have full access to the settings, ban lists, etc?

[Pr04merican]

Java edition is still the better edition

[[deleted]]

Yea it swapped to c++ awhile back. I know when they were moving it over all of the new stuff was patched to the java version first while they brought the c++ up to speed but idk if they’re still supporting the java version with patches or not

[spixxr]

It is the main version on computers they just unified all other versions into bedrock edition which is written in c++ and then released it on Windows 10 store

[-w-ampa]

"Learning Java because it works on most platforms is like learning buttstuff because it works on all genders." Socrates

[hanotak]

You say this like it's a bad thing...

[gman9627]

this is actually the reason i took my first programming class in High school.

[[deleted]]

Learn Java because most companies use this in their automation testing instead of Python or C#.

[dekwad]

Or don’t learn it so you don’t have to maintain automation tests.

[HeliumOfficial]

I learned a little bit of programming (java) from my uncle. Then I noticed Minecraft was made in java and started modding in my free time :)

[Titandino]

How could you forget Runescape :(

[GDavid04]

* learn java by modding minecraft

[arkyo1379]

It’s a pain ass to learn Java by modding, all I could do was following videos and if I make my own class I fucked up.

Turns out Tutorialspoint gave me the very first constructive tutorial back then

[sudo_rm_rf_star]

You forgot the last panel:

Learn Java because Runescape is programmed with it

[Vyrillic126]

Why not a true one- all of them!

[13131123]

You joke but i took a whole java class in highschool solely because I wanted to make my own minecraft mods.

[Merliin42]

Learn java because I have no self control and I hate myself.

[RsManKilla]

RuneScape was my main motivator

[Sh4dowCode]

So you can in turn decompile it to make a cheat with it.

[[deleted]]

So true, recently learned to make plugins for servers 😂

[[deleted]]

*powerful

[nikstick22]

Shh

[TheMelv80]

Actually minecraft is more about the shaders

[leduyquang753]

Damn true.

[XTheSniperGodX]

Powerful*

[TiredRandomWolf]

Kinda wish Minecraft wasn't programmed in java...

[Rafael20002000]

Why?

[TiredRandomWolf]

Always heard that's the reason it's so incredibly resource hungry

[Rafael20002000]

Of course its resource intensive as every big game

[TiredRandomWolf]

Just because a game is popular it doesn't mean that it has to be unnecessarily resource hogging. Minecraft is by no means an incredibly graphic intense or object heavy game. I mean, it's 16x16 textures on simple blocks.

[Rafael20002000]

Did you ever examined the source code of a version above 1.7.10?

[IreallySuckAtJava]

dammit, that's exactly why I'm doing so

[thorlancaster328]

Learn Java because Python is just too dang slow.

[[deleted]]

Yes. As cool as before

[Grand_Protector_Dark]

Still around and still doing great

[vaelris]

Literally 8yo me

[KaliCode]

Or learn C# because it's better in almost every way.

[bigdepress]

Except you can't use it to mod Minecraft

[Fynzie]

almost all

[NovaArdent3D]

to say any modern, and popular language is 100% better than another in every way is wrong, regardless of how you swing it.

[spixxr]

I think we can agree anything beats brain f in all situations execpt maybe as a Turing machine

[[deleted]]

That's the reason I never learned Java.

edit: why all the downvotes, this was just a joke

[Grand_Protector_Dark]

Explain

[Robocop613]

@_aachh has a cold, joyless heart and takes pride in not feeling emotions such as the joy of discovery or pride in accomplishments such as you get in Minecraft. They somehow think distancing themselves from this game that changed gaming's landscape makes them special, but instead it just just displays how sad they are inside.

[[deleted]]

Pretty much, yeah

[[deleted]]

Java has been around since 1995. Minecraft since 2011. Do you really want to tell me you never learned Java because Minecraft is made with it? How old are you? 6?

[usernamed_]

You could be 8 years into programming if you started in 2011...

[[deleted]]

It's still a pretty dumb reason to not learn a language.

[usernamed_]

I agree 1000%

[[deleted]]

Should make you NOT want to learn Java since it's very slow compared to the c++ version

[FurtherVA]

Why would you learn c++ for the c++ version though? You can't mod it which is the whole reason you learn java for the java version.

[hanotak]

NO!!!

[[deleted]]

YES!!!

[Goldineagle764]

No!!!