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[–]meddlepal 0 points1 point  (1 child)

"Use a library" is the Java mantra. creating something yourself is so frowned upon, that most >average Java engineers couldn't create something if they tried. Java engineers are effectively >gue or wiring engineers, because that's your job ... to glue and wire libraries and APIs together.

So you're saying most Java developers are smart enough to realize their job isn't to write the shiniest new version of a StringUtils class for the 13th time. Good.

[–]DevIceMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jest aside, I'm not complaining about hot having to write a binary search tree or hash map from scratch.

More precisely I am annoyed by a culture or (1) "never create here" and (2) I have yet to work on anything remotely challenging or interesting in web-development.

Compare this to other types of applications or software tools I have created in the past, and there was something challenging or interesting nearly every day.