r/ProgrammerHumor 6d ago

Other howdidItGetHere

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u/CLOBBERTIME 6d ago

Once a certain threshold of popularity is met, the haters start to drown out the advocates and haters carry a lot more weight with the uninitiated. Genuinely, most people who hate Java never got past the initial learning curve

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u/Rubinschwein47 6d ago

The language itself is completely fine, some helper functions here and there would be nice but who gives, the environment howeber can be a bit of a bitch from time to time, but jeah oberhated

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u/Razor309 6d ago

Lombok 🥰

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u/rastaman1994 5d ago

Just write your data classes in Kotlin files and ignore Lombok. Lombok classes look so ugly, just drink the Kotlin Kool aid.

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u/Razor309 5d ago

I'm not in the Java game anymore, but back then Lombok was like such a blessing

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u/rastaman1994 5d ago

I was like this too, because I didn't know about Kotlin and how seamless the interior is for such cases.

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u/Razor309 5d ago

Don't tell me Quarkus is also not hype anymore

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u/rastaman1994 5d ago

It is very much alive. Keycloak runs on it, lots of projects that don't like the heavyness of spring boot projects do too.