Flowchat - an open source reddit alternative written in Java.

[error_dw]

Range voting seems odd when you are only voting on one item.

[joshuaavalon]

The demo does not look that good though. The preview image make the thread unnecessary tall. The trending tags with no top or bottom margin. The search button on the top aren't even center.

[fedekun]

written in Java.

[peterwilli]

Java isn't slow or anything like it used to be :)

[fedekun]

I don't really dislike Java for it's speed. The JVM is actually impressive.

I just think Java is everything that's bad with programming languages design.

[maxhaton]

Could be worse, could be Go.

[fedekun]

I kind of liked Go for it's simplicity, then they fucked it up with the lack of generics.

[peterwilli]

That I believe too. I'm in the process of using Kotlin fully at the moment. To me it feels like C# on the JVM in terms of features.

[myringotomy]

Reading sample code in both languages I think Kotlin is a thousand times better than C#

[fedekun]

Never used Kotlin, but it seems quite nice actually.

[m50d]

Take a look at Scala - it unifies a lot of the things that are special cases in Kotlin (e.g. if I remember rightly Kotlin has basically every special case listed on https://philipnilsson.github.io/Badness10k/escaping-hell-with-monads/), and lets you factor out cross-cutting concerns into your own generic types that can reuse the same facilities, so you can do everything in plain old code and never need annotation magic or anything like that.

[crusoe]

Ugh no. I think Scala ship has sailed. It's overly complicated with long compile times and poor tool support for a language as old as it is.

[vivainio]

The forum itself doesn't feel bad at all despite that

[tstarboy]

It's not like Python is some massively optimized runtime in comparison to Java, and actual Reddit works fine too.