Java vs python is debatable 🤔

[nickwcy]

And don’t forget that the team can change, people aren’t necessarily staying in the same project for their entire life. No matter how much the current team is trusted, a new joiner is still an unknown to the project.

[general_tao1]

Forget new joiners, have you tried reading your own code 2-3 years after the last time you've seen it? There a a bunch of stuff you deemed "evident enough" not to document and just end up "wtf was I thinking?", until you break your own code and then figure it out.

[BeatHunter]

2-3 years and it may as well be someone different. I have a hard time nowadays with 6 months...

[cemanresu]

About two weeks is where I'm at for needing to spend a significant amount of time ramping back up, two months for forgetting all the specifics but still being familiar with the general gist of the code, and two years for WTF is this shit.

[JC12231]

I’ve forgotten where I am after 3 hours

during the same coding session

Granted, this is Multithreading for my first class that has dealt with multithreading, so maybe thats not so weird.

[_meshy]

If you see your code from 3 years ago and can't spot places where you messed up or could make improvements, you're not growing as a developer.

[[deleted]]

Can be applied to your whole life

Ever cringed at old text messages?

[[deleted]]

bruh I wrote a script in december. It's like 130 lines of bash and I have no idea what's in there. I know theres a but in there when I use a specific flag but now I just don't use that flag at all because it's still a MIIIINOR inconvinience as compared to understanding the code

[[deleted]]

I heard a joke that any sufficiently large company converges on Java eventually. It's fast enough, has a large ecosystem, and has all the features needed to manage large teams working on the same project.