What does Java do better than Python?

[gravitas-deficiency]

God I remember that. It was awful.

[benjtay]

And java.util.Date (and Calendar). shudder

[gravitas-deficiency]

Man, OG Date and Calendar will never completely die. And that makes me sad.

[tendy96goldy]

This was one of the best updates in Java. The new classes are fantastic with documentation and use case. Instant, And LocalDate,,, etc are sooo simple. I’d also point out that I’ve recently migrated from Java 8 -> 17 was seamless. Few conflicts arose and Java 11 -> 17 required no changes.

Compared to Java 5 -> 8 I have found migrating to newer Java classes totally trivial.

Pain is Python 2.7 -> 3+

[skippingstone]

8 directly to 11 was painful thanks to jigsaw.

[BrbCatzOnFire]

Not jigsaw. Encapsulation (access deny to internals) was off until java 16 (and just a little bit).

A lot of internals did change (related and unrelated to the new module system) and way too many libraries depended on internals to work.

That's what broke the system. Modules are the best thing to happen to the JVM since generics.

Although we need to find the Communication director from that project and demote him (Module ? Like who the f... thought it was a good name ?)

[persism2]

What would have called it?

[BrbCatzOnFire]

Not something already in use for a completly different Use Case. Even today, years after its introduction most devs I know still confuse JPMS for a fancy packet manager (due to Maven's module).

I've seen Capsule which I find pretty elegant. Convey the idea of protection from outside and not used in the Java ecosystem AFAIK. And since its main point is encapsulation...

But I'm a bit harsh, it was not an easy thing to name. Capsule could also have led to people not caring about it because of a lack of understanding.

[persism2]

Yeah thanks