alt Hacker NewsNot knowing what's going on in Java is a personal problem. The language and jvm have its own quirks but it's no less knowable than any other compiler optimized code. The debugging and introspection tooling in Java is also best in class so I would say it's one of the more understandable run times.
Gradle does suck and maven is ok but a bit ugly.
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dionian • today at 3:02 PM
LLMs take the whole argument away. Yes, maven/gradle/sbt suck to work with. But now you can just generate it.
Lets look at Java in modern day.
* Most mature Java project has moved to Kotlin.
* The standard build system uses gradle, which is either groovy or kotlin, which gets compiled to java which then compiles java.
* Log4shell, amongst other vulnerabilities.
* Super slow to adopt features like async execution
* Standard repo usage is terrible.
There is no point in using Java anymore. I don't agree that Rust is a replacement, but between Python, Node, and C/C++ extensions to those, you can do everything you need.