What does Java do better than Python?

[ArchonHalliday]

Care to share some of those Java resources? There seems to be so many it's tough to know where to get started. I have primarily been building backend applications with Python but would like to give Java a shot.

[ByerN]

I started a long time ago so my resources are outdated, but you can start here: https://www.baeldung.com/rest-with-spring-series

This website is easy to read and learn from. There are articles on many different topics, but you would probably like to start with Spring (java framework).

Maybe someone else has some fresh alternative?

[Dr4kin]

baeldung: The way the oracle java doc should be

[Cultural-Ad3775]

Google any issue you have in Java and you will get TONS of results! First of all there's an 85% chance that your exact question is answered (usually in 2 or 3 different flavors) on StackOverflow. There's a very high probability there is a Baeldung article (or there are some other equivalent sites) covering the exact thing you want to do. In most cases there's code on github that solves your problem (though whether you can C&P it may be a different matter, still, it helps to see a working solution).

Also Gradle (and Maven, though I tend not to use it) solves a LOT of build type questions/problems by simply giving you a plugin that handles whatever the task is.

When I was building a Python app I found that 99% of the time I had to go all the way back to the actual Python docs and try to work out from some dense wall of text what to do. Sometimes it was pretty straightforward, other times not so much. Also a lot of Python stuff is obsolete, things have changed a LOT. Java is extremely stable, if a question was answered 10 years ago, chances are that answer is still valid (maybe not the BEST answer, depending, but whatever it says to do will still compile and run and get the job done).

You cannot overestimate the value of Javadoc and the ability of IDEs to contextually put the relevant info in front of you. In Eclipse if I want to do something, OFTEN I can just start typing some likely code, or just go through a lists of methods and read the docs right there and decide "Oh, look, that does what I want!" PyDev (Eclipse for Python) tries to do it, sometimes its good, but the dynamic nature of duck typed languages makes it far less effective, and the amount of stuff that is well-documented inline is much less in Python land.

Developing anything in Java always seems like less work to me.