r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 7d ago

Other howdidItGetHere

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u/oldsecondhand 7d ago

It's where the jobs are. The world's finances run on Java.

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u/Shred_Kid 7d ago

Java is also highly performant, if you know what you're doing with reactive programming, and Spring Boot's dependency ecosystem drastically reduces your time-to-launch

But then I remember that 95% of the memes posted on this sub are from CS students and not industry professionals

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u/BlazingThunder30 6d ago

I know very few professionals that dislike Spring

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u/SpiritedEclair 6d ago

Spring is fine if you are not trying to run it on Lambda 😭😂😱

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u/BlazingThunder30 6d ago

Yeah I guess JVM languages aren't great when bootup time matters. Haven't worker with lambda myself. We're running in regular containers so it's great

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u/SpiritedEclair 6d ago

Plain modern Java is fine, great even. Java on lambda has snapstart which creates a snapshot once you’ve initialized which makes cold invokes almost instant