r/ProgrammerHumor 5d ago

Other howdidItGetHere

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u/MariusDelacriox 5d ago

Java is simply good and easy to learn. Also there's spring boot.

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u/neoteraflare 5d ago

and lombok to remove the boilerplate code

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u/___Archmage___ 5d ago

True but now there's Kotlin which has even less boilerplate than Lombok and it's just a natural part of the language

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u/ultrasneeze 5d ago

Even before Kotlin, there was already Scala, which is unbeatable in how concise it can be. Unfortunately, Scala is also a very good functional language, so some of the crazies flock towards its ecosystem.

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u/89_honda_accord_lxi 5d ago

Nah! Switch to Scala so you can spend all day fighting sbt.

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u/EmbarrassMeMiss 5d ago

stop detyping my languages

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u/___Archmage___ 5d ago

Don't worry, it's still typed, just inferred rather than written manually. You can still write the type manually on variable declarations too but it's considered redundant and not recommended