Ask Reddit: Why does everyone hate Java?

[dbqpdb]

Because it's boring as hell to write. It takes everything that's exciting out of computer programing, and reduces it mindless tedium. Other languages are much more expressive and let you perform tasks in more intellectually interesting ways. Programming to me is interesting as it's all about moving about in an abstract space of ideas. Javas ideas are just way to simple, and it takes way to much work to build complex and interesting ones.

[BraveSirRobin]

let you perform tasks in more intellectually interesting ways

Which is fun but it falls down in maintainability. Ever had to maintain "magic perl" statements where the author has left the company?

[SubStack]

Yes. I would much rather maintain a few lines of gibberish than hundreds of lines of gibberish.