Not at all a bad choice.

It's stable to the point of boring, and there's no shortage of people who know the language and can work with it, it's got best in class tooling, decades worth of libraries almost all very mature. Most of the language's issues are from legacy code bases coded in a style that isn't really relevant to a greenfield project.

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gentlewater 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

It’s still missing null safety, right? Which means it’s still a hard no for me.

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winrid 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I have a couple 50k+ loc java projects written entirely by LLMs at this point that have never thrown an NPE.

	▲	what_hn 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Same here with go, then Again go doesn't throw!

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marginalia_nu 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have you tried not returning null or constructing incomplete objects?

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gentlewater 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Can I trust code I’ve written myself with no guarantees from the language? Maybe. Can I trust code written by dozens of other developers (and/or agents) working on the same project over multiple years? Definitely not.

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marginalia_nu 21 minutes ago | parent [-]

Why don't you have any coding standards? If you're working with agents in particular, catching and enforcing this stuff should be easier than ever.

	▲	saghm 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Most engineers do not have the ability to impose rules by fiat on all of their coworkers. It seems like you're misunderstanding the nature of working on a codebase as an IC when other developers contribute to it. If all of my coworkers don't want a lint rule I propose, I don't get to add it. If all of my other coworkers want to write code in a certain way and approve each other's MRs with code written in that way, I don't get to veto it.

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saghm 17 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you never use external libraries?

	▲	what_hn 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		With agents, we're getting there.

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LelouBil 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can either use Kotlin then, or simply use java and nullability annotations, they have good support in both IDEs and analysis tools

	▲	gentlewater 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I use Kotlin as my main language and I’m very satisfied with it.

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well_ackshually 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Any serious project will be using NullAway and annotating everything (or, indeed, using Kotlin).

Otherwise, yeah, you're still in for a world of pain.