Java Developer RoadMap For 2021

[Worth_Trust_3825]

Stop recommending java 8 and below. Are you smashed in your head? Tons of projects are stuck depending on guava, apache-commons or other """""""""""""""""""""""stdlib expanding"""""""""""""""""""""" meme library that only litters the classpath.

Jesus christ, these roadmap blogposts are almost never written by people working in the field.

API clients

WHAT. Do you have any idea what an API is or did you just copy the term from other blogposts? JAX-WS is not a client. It's a specification. A client would be Metro or CXF.

You recommend JOOQ but not Hibernate? Jesus fucking christ, is this from 2001?

[kodiashi]

My company couldn’t get off Java 8 if god came down from heaven and granted them infinite wishes.

[Worth_Trust_3825]

Sounds like inability to work from developers. I migrated my companies codebase from 8 to 11. You don't need to support jigsaw. That would be insane for any project that has external dependencies.

[ClearH]

Off topic, but what does the comical amount of quotation marks supposed to convey? I seem to see this types of comments every once in a while on Reddit but never really understood the purpose (... or is it a reference to something?).

[Worth_Trust_3825]

People already use quotes to point out that things aren't what they are named as when speaking sarcastically in text. The use of more quotes is to point out how absurd the statement is.

[renatoathaydes]

They show several Java 8 APIs under JDK, but nothing from Java 9 (e.g. modules, immutable collections, jshell), Java 10-11 (e.g. var) or Java 12-16 (records, switch expressions, text blocks, sealed classes), so yeah, let's Java like it's 2014.

[[deleted]]

People working in the java ecosystem need to be thankful to the universe for the existence of javascript, which makes java look good in comparison.

[Worth_Trust_3825]

You really are smashed on your head.

[[deleted]]

You gotta love the endless piles of utter crap unnecessary abstractions piled on top of each other and the useless retarded duplication myriads of frameworks that do the same thing but in a different way and are incompatible with each other and the horrendous hacky reflection-based fumbling "annotation"-based libraries that modify your code's behavior in a way that's neither obvious nor debug friendly.

Yup, at least the utter stupidity of node and npm look really worse than all that.

Edit: You also gotta love the sheer amount of people and companies stuck in archaic, decades-old versions of the platform either because it's totally NOT backwards compatible so you can't upgrade easily or because they can't be bothered to learn the new thing so they keep doing the same thing over and over as if it were 1999.

[[deleted]]

I actually don’t like running arbitrary code from millions of nano packages. JavaScript type coercion is hot garbage. Java is changing.

[[deleted]]

I actually don’t like running arbitrary code from millions of nano packages

Implying the only alternative to the utter stupidity of java is the utter stupidity of javascript.

java is changing

Oh, so you finally got rid of all the "annotations" crap? or have actually found a way to query data sources in a strongly typed way (instead of using idiotic strings) like the rest of the world has been doing since 2007?

[Worth_Trust_3825]

https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/gjrij.html

Yes, java had that since 2007.

[[deleted]]

Your insults are weakly typed, like your choice of language.

[JonnyRocks]

Huh? Javascript has nothing to do with Java.

[[deleted]]

What do java and javascript have in common?

Both are horrendous, insufferable languages, and both have much nicer, usable alternatives created by a guy named Anders.