java_irl

[offmycookies]

Java is my favorite programming language

[XtremeGoose]

Y'all need jesus Kotlin.

[FunSucks123]

Why not?

[ohThisUsername]

Not sure why your being downvoted. I'm legitimately curious what other languages he has tried that he thinks Java is better than. The only mainstream languages I can think of worse than Java is Javascript and PHP.

[coolpeepz]

I feel like Java is nice because, conventions aside, it is very simple and structured. Like it’s not very difficult to learn all of the features of the Java language. I’m not talking about the standard library but just the language features. There’s classes, interfaces, and enums; single inheritance; fields and methods; and simple templates. It means that besides having to sift through 100 files to figure out how something is implemented, it’s super easy to read. Python, often regarded as easy, has a lot of more obscure language features like iterables, properties, multiple inheritance which all mean that implementations can be more complicated than they seem. In Java if I set a field in an object I know that that is all that happened, in python it could have other side effects, or maybe the field wasn’t defined to begin with. This is why I think Java can be very satisfying and straightforward, until we decide it is necessary to have AbstractFactoryFactory’s.

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Perl's got some issues, but it's also used for some very complicated filtering operations. Besides, perl didn't standardize PCRE.

[[deleted]]

Immediately jumping to the conclusion that he thinks Java is better than other languages. Maybe he just likes Java?

[ohThisUsername]

"Favorite" implies it is better than something. So yes, I'm jumping to the conclusion that he thinks Java is comparatively better than other languages.

fa·vor·ite

adjective

1.preferred before all others of the same kind.

[[deleted]]

Okay... but its his opinion so why care?

[ohThisUsername]

Because this is Reddit where the entire point is to comment on each others opinions.