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An interesting example to look at is Java vs. Kotlin. While Kotlin is a bit easier and definetly more fun, it didn't manage to gain a big market share in the Java space so far. I g…

I know and like Java for almost 30 years now. It is amazing how carefully the language is beeing refined. For the cultural aspect, yes, that is sadly true, but I have the feeling t…

This article looks a bit superficial to me. The cloud has definitely advantages, like having the same data on all devices and it provides some kind of backup. The mentioned downsid…

Somehow money seem to damage personality. It's the same with David Heinemeier Hansson (who know Tobias Lütke in person), Elon Musk and many other folks.

That is basically true for every such system. Trust Signal? They could ship a backdoor in the next release. Same with Threema, WhatsApp (if you want to trust it today) and other se…

The right reason to hate XML would be some technical limitation or technical issues with it. But XML works quite well and is reasonable powerful. So the complaints usually boil dow…

Interesting point of view. JSON is also not the right thing to use in many scenarios, but it is the de-facto standard now. Maybe something like protobuf is the way to go.

At least XML is hated for the wrong reasons (e.g. verbosity, esthetics) most of the time. There was for sure an era where it was overused (see Apache Cocoon from 2006 https://en.wi…

Maybe Peter Thiel and Elon Musk will meet again cryogenically preserved ;-) https://fortune.com/2023/05/04/peter-thiel-cryonics-cryogeni...

Everything will be folded in "X" eventually, anyway.

Looks good, but I'm not sure about security: https://bearyangry.com/2026/04/29/carrot-disclosure-forgejo-...

It works as long as your are the only user. Sharing passwords with shared keepass files didn't work properly for me. It was the main reason to move to 1Password (and I never looked…

Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/ might be an interesting alternative. The feature set looks pretty good at first sight. The only real downside I see so far is that it doesn't hav…

It is limited to ... well ... Firefox! Sometimes you need passwords elsewhere. Besides that Firefox (or other browser password managers) doesn't support more advanced use cases lik…

I think that Java has a really good solution to offer: Virtual Threads. They share the same interface with native threads and free developers from the burdens of async programming.…

Might be true, but Subversion was also good enough and a de-facto standard.

`var` has nothing to do with dynamic typing. It is still statically (compile time) typed, so the type can not change at runtime. Compare that to JavaScript where you could easily s…

It is not like auto-wiring would turn Java magically into a dynamically typed language!

In my opinion Helidon is the most refreshing of these frameworks. It supports virtual threads from the ground up and comes with clean, function, mostly annotation free APIs. It rea…

Windows reputation is declining, so the operating system might be the actual crisis. Linux with modern desktops (e.g. Gnome 3) might fill the gap, but the market is far from broad …

I fear that a redesign won't help in this (terminal) stage.

Do have any links to back this up? I'd be really interested.

Gradle could be used as an AI benchenmark on its own! The syntax of plugin DSLs changes all the time. Special credits could be achieved for handling old (Groovy) and new versions (…

However, the cause it not really Java as such, but massive frameworks and tooling (e.g. Maven). Maybe AI will bring some fresh air to Java, because old truths might no longer be va…

Project Lombok rewrites code, however it misuses annotation processing.