Quite surprised by the negativity towards Java in this thread about Sublinks, a Java-based Lemmy alternative. Is it that bad? (programming.dev)

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Hello everyone, I've followed this thread yesterday and noticed a few very negative reactions towards the choice of Java. I follow Java evolution from far away, but it seemed like it was evolving in a good direction since the last few years, and that performance-wise it would make sense for the back-end of a Lemmy-like platform.

Is it indeed the case? I was just curious to see that much negativity towards one of the most popular languages.

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[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I think Java is fine and I still believe its the best beginner language, but once annotations and reflections took over, especially with stuff like Spring, Mapstruct, ... . Everything turned into an unpredictable, memoryhogging, undebugable mess.

Its not really a fault of the language, just how many people (ab)use it! Having to help out in these projects from time to time I get why people hate it!

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