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I've used Java decades ago (anyone remember servlet?) and I'm glad that I can use flutter for Android development.
I do really need to give flutter a try. My only reason I haven't yet is that I have no desire to learn Dart. How do you (or anyone) like Dart compared to Java or Kotlin?
Now with KMP you can build a desktop/iOS/Android app with single codebase as well.
As someone who has been out of the Java world for many years, but recently forced back into it due to Android dev requirements, Post lawsuit, what is the relationship between Android (Google) and Java now? When can we expect 26 on Android? On that note, why is Android always so far behind? Is it because Kotlin is primary or is it deeper? Did the lawsuit play a role?
Vector API (Eleventh Incubator) - maybe 11th time’s the charm.
When it was about the 7th incubator iteration, I got curious so I read the actual JEP history, and it had this informative tidbit, also included in the latest release: "The Vector API will incubate until necessary features of Project Valhalla become available as preview features. At that time, we will adapt the Vector API and its implementation to use them and then promote the Vector API from incubation to preview."…
the people that work on Java & the JVM are very smart. it has become a best of breed language - hell its better than Go for industry purposes. the drawback with Java will always be the CULTURE - (maybe someone can insert a quote of how in physics progress is only made, when old physicist die - I don't wanna be morbid ) but with Java same that's when the culture will change. All those people using typescript (could be…
> for not embracing religion of OOP and FactoryFactory Not the case today. Of course, crappy code (or questionable patterns) can be found in all languages, and java community had made some innovations in the area early on, but today we have a different picture. FactoryFactory has gone mostly extinct, the most likely place to see it is “dailywtf.com”. We now know that we prefer composition over inheritance, we have st…
the people that work on Java & the JVM are very smart. it has become a best of breed language - hell its better than Go for industry purposes. the drawback with Java will always be the CULTURE - (maybe someone can insert a quote of how in physics progress is only made, when old physicist die - I don't wanna be morbid ) but with Java same that's when the culture will change. All those people using typescript (could be…
It can be as fast a C, supports a multitude of languages, introspection, surveillance etc.
The main problem with Java has always been its build tools. They’ve consistently been bad and continue to be. Even today, creating a bundled application with a stripped down JDK with jlink and jpackage is incredibly painful. You’ll need extensive knowledge of the Java CLI, modules, build tool plugins, or tools like Mill which simplify using jlink and jpackage, but even then it remains complex and frequently fails. In reality it should be as simple as something like "java package". Even these days, I frequently see Java developers presenting their desktop apps on Reddit and if you look at how they deploy them, it's often a fat JAR because they struggle to use jlink and jpackage effectively. Ironically, even generateing a fat JAR can be challenging.
As someone who has spent over two decades developing desktop applications including witnessing the shift to horrendous Electron firsthand I can tell you that this was a primary reason Java basically vanished from being so prevalent on desktops. Inexperienced developers often struggled to deploy even simple Java applications, grappling with either runtime incompatibilities (Ironically, developers are somewhat reintroducing the same problem with WebView-based applications) or having to tell their users how to launch a Java app. While some claim desktop apps are dead – which is nonsense – the same applies to CLI applications. CLI apps remain prevalent, primarily written in native languages or Golang, sometimes even Node or one of its derivatives. Rarely Java for the reasons I just mentioned and don't get me started with Graal Native. If someone decides to write a simple trivial CLI app in Golang, they'll simply build it with a single command and be done with it. With Graal Native, you'll have to go through using the tracing agent, and if you're lucky you'll have a fat native executable after minutes of compile time. Forget Graal for a minute though. Java would already go a long way if bundling your application with a stripped down JDK (jlink) was as easy as typing in a single command without having to deal with complicated Maven or Gradle plugins.
the people that work on Java & the JVM are very smart. it has become a best of breed language - hell its better than Go for industry purposes. the drawback with Java will always be the CULTURE - (maybe someone can insert a quote of how in physics progress is only made, when old physicist die - I don't wanna be morbid ) but with Java same that's when the culture will change. All those people using typescript (could be…
Once i heard a manager explain "we must get rid of anything Oracle, including Java, because of license reasons". I see this attitude everywhere since. JavaScript people are too afraid to use Java, that is why something like TypeScript exists. And for personal projects, C# has become a better and more fun "just works" platform.
However, I am afraid of the Java coder who is decorated as senior, has sway due to their position, and who will tell me, that something, that is a simple function, shall not be a simple public static "method", but must be wrapped in yet another object, which I need to instantiate, because OOP, and because obviously I don't know what I am doing, or because it doesn't fit existing "coding practices/style" or "Java style". I am afraid of the Java coder, who for years has not touched anything but Java, because their jobs didn't require anything else, because so many companies want Java. I am afraid of the one who throws around jargon like "dependency injection" all day, without ever using simple terms, or realizing what those things are looking like in another paradigm.
Lord, please save me from ever having to work with such obnoxious and uninformed, learning resistant people. This actually may be a straw man, but even one such character matching one or more of those traits, seated above at the seniority ladder will make a mess, that everyone else has to live with.
I have been using Java since version 1.4. Both the language and its ecosystem have come a long way since then. I endured the height of the EJB phase. I adopted Spring when version 1.2 was released. I spent hours fighting with IDEs to run OSGi bundles. I hated building UIs with Swing/AWT, many of which are still in use today and are gradually being replaced by lovely JavaFX. When I look at code I wrote around 12 years…
I have been using Java since version 1.4. Both the language and its ecosystem have come a long way since then. I endured the height of the EJB phase. I adopted Spring when version 1.2 was released. I spent hours fighting with IDEs to run OSGi bundles. I hated building UIs with Swing/AWT, many of which are still in use today and are gradually being replaced by lovely JavaFX. When I look at code I wrote around 12 years…
> I hated building UIs with Swing/AWT, many of which are still in use today and are gradually being replaced by lovely JavaFX. Dude JFX yielded what was called RIAs to JavaScript like almost 15 years ago. Of the three major GUI toolkits Swing, JavaFX, and SWT it was Swing that gained HighDPI support first (10 years ago), and continues to be the base for kick-as IntelliJ IDEA and other Jetbrains IDEs.
I was pretty surprised when I learned recently that the Java alternative for green threads doesn't use colored functions. It put Java in a higher place in my perception.
No need of colored functions because that Java green thread returns a Future not Value like colored functions