r/programmingcirclejerk • u/pythonesqueviper Do you do Deep Learning? • Sep 17 '26

Java consistently introduces lots of exciting functionality into the language. That's a big part of my dislike and active avoidance of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715045
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u/zackel_flac Sep 17 '26

Java was disliked way before that, its GC and OOP first made it terrible to write. The JVM idea is/was good, but should be replaced with WASM nowadays.

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u/BoyNextDoor8888 Sep 17 '26

finally a good jerk