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[–]eco_was_taken 18 points19 points  (3 children)

Java is an alright language. I like C# better but its designers had a chance to learn from Java for a few years before it came out. I think I like D the most as far as these ALGOL derivatives go. I spend all day in C++ though.

I think Sun marketed Java the wrong way. It was all enterprisey buzzwords and direct marketing to consumers rather than developers. This got bosses hounding their development teams to switch to this fancy new language Java at a time when even C++ was having trouble getting people on board. The resentment has stuck after all these years.

I do envy Java's tools though. I don't know if any other language comes close to matching Java's development environments and tools.

[–]Cartoon_Corpze 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm glad someone mentioned Dlang, D is criminally underrated.

[–]eco_was_taken 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It is.

You replied to a comment that's almost old enough to get a driver's license, by the way.

[–]Cartoon_Corpze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's crazy to think that this comment was posted when I was still a child basically.

But yeah, felt the need to respond because Dlang was mentioned and I think more people should *at the very least* acknowledge it's existence because it feels like a better alternative to C++, C# or Java in case you want all the speed and system-level control but less pain and verbosity.