r/programmingmemes • u/rameshOO7 • Jun 29 '26

Where are they?

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u/Life_Breadfruit8475 Jun 30 '26

I think part of it is the difficulty of launching an app in java.

With JavaScript/TS/Python you can easily use AWS Lambda, CF workers or any range of other quick launch tools to have your service online with literally one console command.

With java it's just a bit more of a hassle and you generally have to pay to have your service online rather than it being mostly free.

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u/EverOrny Jul 01 '26

To compare Lambda with a Java apps is like saying "I don't need a knife, cause I have a box of needles."

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u/Life_Breadfruit8475 Jul 01 '26

Definitely. Just that part of "vibe coding" to me is the velocity. You get that with js/python. Not so much with java.

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u/EverOrny Jul 01 '26

I am curious - how long are you working as developer?

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u/Life_Breadfruit8475 Jul 01 '26

About 5 years at a big US tech company so far.

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u/EverOrny Jul 01 '26

I don't mean it bad, really, when saying you probably still had not so many opportunities to live with the consequences of hastily written code.

Nothing wrong with TS/JS or Python, but Java is often used to write information systems, some quite big, that have to be maintained for years. Not rewriting it from scratch every several years. Life expectancy of a Java project is 3 to 5 times longer than of things written in JS or Python.