I learned that following your heart and being in love with a specific programming language aren't what make you a software engineer or even a CEO.

I've learned people who hate Java are basically racists who hate Indians.

And all you have to do to find them is say that and wait for people who say "No! Java is bad because..."

	▲	nullpoint420 a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Wow is this true? Hopefully I don’t come across this way. I’m a huge Kotlin fan but strongly dislike Java for its verbosity. Is hating on Java really a dog whistle like you say?
	▲	vsgherzi a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Wow … that’s quite the comment. I can’t say I’ve made this connection. Could you expand on this more? My gripes with Java are because I feel it’s 1. A poor language to introduce students to computer science 2. Contains a poor api for date and time 3. Encourages overly verbose oop design 4. Has an infuriating garbage collector that’s often extremely hard to debug. Most advice just tells me to use a different garbage collector. 5. Not a fan of the thread story. 6. Large complex libraries like spring often dominate the language. 7. License issues… thanks oracle… 8. Often large memory footprints If you’re hating a language because of a group on people or vice versa perhaps you should look inwards.