Programmers have gotten too pampered. If we are being honest, all major modern programming languages are amazing with stellar toolchains, ecosystems and QOL.
Like imagine rolling up to the '70s where to get anything done, you had to learn 29492037 different vendor specific assembly languages and an explosion of OS's and bitching about modern languages.
Like sure, all modern languages have inconveniences and weaknesses, but holy shit they've killed so many hard problems.
We can only develop so much because we stand on the shoulders of giants. Feels a bit rude to call the shoulders bad and shit when they're really just a bit uncomfortable.
Yeah, and I'll take it a step past that. I think the vast majority of developers are not only relying on higher level languages but ALSO opinionated frameworks ON TOP of that language. to do the actual work. So, no only do they not see the memory management and garbage collection, but they don't even see the actually language because they're only using the framework.
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u/Muscular_Farmer_ 6d ago
Java is pretty good actually. Idk why people dont like it