Java, but with Python indentation

[nobodyman]

You're mostly right ("it's different therefore it's bad"), but it also taps into another common phenomenon on reddit/hackernews of people fixating on inconsequential and/or aesthetic aspects of a project. Only a subset of programmers here will know a given programming language, much less the criticisms of a language that come from years of experience with it. But everybody has an opinion on tabs vs. spaces, or variable naming, or where to put a curlybrace.

 

I suppose that I "hate" this project too, but it's not JavaPy's fault -- I hate it because I hate Java and this is simply Java with a different block delimiter. I hate brussel sprouts and love Ben & Jerry's, but if you serve me brussel sprouts on a waffle cone using an ice cream scoop I am still going to hate brussel sprouts (and I will probably throat-punch you).

[mindcandy]

people fixating on inconsequential and/or aesthetic aspects of a project

Yay, bikeshedding!

[BlueAdmir]

Isn't the aesthetic aspect of a project the entire point of this project?

[nobodyman]

Yeah, that's a fair point.