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[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 105 points 11 months ago

Java is poison for the mind

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 11 months ago

Why do people feel this way?

I'm genuinely curious as I'd think having a wider swathe of coding experience would be a good thing wouldn't it?

I don't work in fields that use coding expertise, I drive a forklift so I'm out of my wheel house when it comes to coding.

[-] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 11 months ago

Not sure either. Best guesses are a combination of elitism, ignorance, preconceptions, groupthink, and insincere memeing.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

NGL if I saw a job listing that said, "Don't have experience in a specific field," I wouldn't apply even if I didn't have experience in the field specified because my assumptions for why they'd say that basically are the reasons you said.

Or that they would want someone they could under pay for the position, but that's more specific for what the job is and what they don't want you to know beforehand.

Edit: Fixed wrong wording

[-] gornius@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Java used to lack many features to make the stuff you wanted it to do, so most Java programmers adapted design patterns to solve these problems.

Honestly, older versions of Java are utter garbage DX. The only reason it got so popular was because of aggressive enterprise marketing and it worked. How can a language lack such an essential feature as default parameters?

So, anyway after the great hype Java lost its marketshare, and developers were forced to learn another technologies. And of course, instead of looking for language-native way of solving problems, they just used same design patterns.

And thus MoveAdapterStrategyFactoryFactories were in places where simple lambda function would do the same thing, just not abstracted away three layers above. Obviously used once in the entire codebase.

Imo the only really good thing about Java was JVM, while it was not perfect, it actually delivered what it promised.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago

This is the only necessary comment in the entire thread, thanks for explaining

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[-] PaperTowel@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

Java in a large way has been eclipsed by most other languages, and developers kind of have a way of making fun of old technologies, like a lot of the same jokes are made about PHP which is still very popular but outdated. In reality Java is also still incredibly popular and knowing it is certainly a benefit. It's just a collective joke.

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[-] amtwon@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If it's a job that requires high-performance/low-level code (which seems to be the case from the other qualifications), this is probably their way of filtering out people who have primarily worked at a higher level where you don't need to worry about the nitty-gritty details

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can almost guarantee that job post was written by a recruiter who had some engineers in a call. The recruiter probably said something like "What about Java? I hear Java is important" to which the engineer(s) likely jokingly responded "Oh, no, please no. MINIMUM POSSIBLE JAVA. Yeesh. Ideally none." ... and the recruiter took that literally.

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[-] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago

Honestly, why people hate it so much? It's better than most of the shit people use

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago

public static void main string args

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[-] javasux@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago
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[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 83 points 11 months ago

ability to bring up hardware

In conversation?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

You need to raise it suckling at your teet until you send it off to college.

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[-] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 20 points 11 months ago

No, they're asking if you can get an erection

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 11 months ago

Hardware bring up is when you design a pcb or something and there doesn't yet exist any firmware for it. It would be the ability to debug the board and write firmware for it.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago

They need someone strong enough ton drag up old servers from the basement.

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[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago

Do you have a link to this job posting? That’s exactly me. Not a joke.

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

Looks like the company is https://www.winterwinds.io/, but they do not appear to have any open job listings at the moment. I assume this is an older screenshot.

[-] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

And that's how hopes die...

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

If they're a good enough fit, the company might hire them despite not having any open positions. It happened to me once.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 62 points 11 months ago

Real-time operating system implies the existence of a turn-based operating system.

[-] Rossel@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

Well, that's... not wrong. The time-sharing OSes take turns assigning resources too tasks.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 57 points 11 months ago

Maybe they want to avoid java coding patterns. FactoryFactoryGenerator kind of stuff. Maybe they want to teach their own java coding patterns and want someone coming in with a blank slate so they don't have to unlearn habits. Maybe they're tired of diploma mill programmers applying and are using this as a resume filter tripwire.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Definitely. Horror story time.

We had an outside contractor bring us some code once that was thousands of lines of Python to do a very simple job. I was perplexed. I dove in to figure out what the problem was, and somehow I was looking at the most Java-esque Python code I could imagine. What’s worse is that he implemented his own “Java style” property getters and setters for all the Python classes, which obviously aren’t needed because you can simply access properties directly. In the end I took an 80 line snippet of his code (which actually did the work we needed), swapped out all the getters and setters, and deleted all the rest.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

This is pretty common with outside contractors.

We just come in, say we'll pay them x dollars and they give us code that passes the test. But that code will not at all align with any prior patterns.

I absolutely know I'm guilty of it when I do freelancing. Sorry.

[-] BaskinRobbins@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

You can always tell when someone's been a career contractor because they never adhere to any of the established patterns/styles in the codebase.

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[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

It might be to see who is reading the posting and tailoring their reply. Kinda like a "no green M&Ms" rider.

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[-] frobeniusnorm@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ruling Javascript and Python programmers out would be more sane imho. Java sucks, but at least its typed and doesn't implement weird semantics.

[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 11 months ago

Had to work with a python programer on a small java project (in uni). I passed some (handcrafted) strings in an Optional to be explicit an first thing he does is check whether they are empty (sending on empty strings would not have been problematic). Also he had compilation errors on his branch that lasted over a week. What python does to someone.

[-] Elderos@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

I worked under a self-proclamed Python/JavaScript programmer, and part of the job involved doing rather advanced stuff in various other typed languages like c# and c++. It was hell. The code review were hell. For every little tiny weenie little things we had to go through "why coding c++ like it is python" is a very bad idea.

What is crazy about developers who exclusively work with scripting languages is that they have no conception of why general good practices exist, and they often will make up their own rules based on their own quirks. In my previous example, the developer in question was the author of a codebase that was in literal development hell, but he was adamant on not changing his ways. I'd definitely be wary of hiring someone who exclusively worked with scripting language, and sometime it is less work to train someone who is a blank slate rather than try to deprogram years of bad habits.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

That guy was shitty at Python, then. Python is all about EAFP instead of LBYL.

[-] lostme@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Eat ass fast paced instead of lay back your lettuce?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

"Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission" vs. "Look Before You Leap."

In other words, in Python you should just write the code to do the thing and then put an exception handler at the bottom instead of cluttering up your function with guard code everywhere.

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[-] Sunrosa@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

Did NOT expect to see Rust mentioned. Happy it's getting recognized.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 11 months ago

Isnt there Rust in the linux kernel now? Would be kinda crazy if it didnt get noticed by now...

[-] null@slrpnk.net 12 points 11 months ago

Rust is the Celeste of programming languages.

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[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago
[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 69 points 11 months ago

Sure it is, grandpa. Now let's take your pills and go to bed.

[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 21 points 11 months ago

Like in the old days "No previous exposure to FORTRAN" required.

[-] riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

reading this just gives me the biggest imposted syndrom and reminds me of how underqualified for any job i feel, even after my software development apprenticeship

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago

Don't feel that way. This is a highly specific role with a ton of not-necessarily-connected tech. Python, C++, Rust and calling out Java? Strange. You don't need to know any of this stuff to be successful. If you just know javascript, that's enough for many, many roles.

Youll find that if you understand the patterns you're using in JS, you can apply them to many other languages. Other languages will have different syntaxes and maybe slightly different patterns, but you can always apply what you know, which will make it easier to add more languages to your arsenal.

You'll feel like you have no idea what you're doing for a long time, but all the while you have picked up a ton of knowledge and experience that you will still probably discount. Just be eager to learn and don't sell yourself too short.

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[-] xlash123@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Damn, that sounds like a cool job. I would like to do more Rust at work, but alas, everything here is either Python or Java.

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Git hygiene is important for avoiding Git-Transmitted Infections (GTIs) such as Vim

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