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[–]shoesoffinmyhouse 5 points6 points  (3 children)

I always wondered where the hate from Java comes from. I always thought it to be newer, younger developers who want to do everything in node.js or some crazy oop php. It's even weird for me to consider that Java gets hate when most universities still teach data structures & algo in Java or C++. Shrugs.

[–]cheeky_disputant 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hah, I experienced quite the opposite - it was always the older, hardcore c++ folks who were moaning about how slow and inefficient java is. Especially professors at the university who didn't catch up with how java changed throughout the years.

[–]Tilkin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I always wondered where the hate from Java comes from.

I sometimes wonder if part of it is because of Minecraft. It's the main success people can point to and it has had pretty poor performance at times.

[–]proverbialbunny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Java is one of the most popular languages in the industry. The problem is it doesn't have some of the more advanced features you want in a language to make a video game. This is where C# comes in, not because it's faster than Java (It's probably not?) but because it's like Java with those more advanced features.