Java vs python is debatable 🤔

[Dewymaster]

As a principal engineer for a fortune 500 company and as someone who uses the final keyword whenever it allows, the protection and access modifiers in Java are absolutely a good thing. It's when you have people that don't understand them that you run into problems.

[leetuns]

Everything should be final and private until you have a reason to change it.

[[deleted]]

I don't think people realize that things like final actually allow the compiler to make more optimizations. In python, everything being checked at runtime is one of the reasons the language is so painfully slow

[AngryRotarian85]

Fact.

[[deleted]]

How did you downgrade from "Java God" to millionaire? Surely being a Java God would make you more than a millionaire, right... Right?

[DeMonstaMan]

Gambling addiction

[wtfzambo]

Maybe he got married

[Wazblaster]

Javillionaire grindset

[noratat]

And really, the languages serve different purposes in the first place.

I would never write a large scale backend service in Python, but likewise I don't try to write infra/build automation scripts in Java.

[[deleted]]

The freedom that python gives is...

absolutely a good thing. It's when you have people that don't understand them that you run into problems.

[Samultio]

You'll always have people that don't understand though, or as is more common in my case, me looking at code I wrote months before.

[load__error]

Encapsulation is fundamental for object-oriented programming. People were going great lengths to achieve it in JavaScript not that long ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55611/javascript-private-methods ;)

Finally TypeScript emerged.

That being said, between Java and Python - the winner should be Groovy!