[rini17]

So...if somebody hands you responsibility for a codebase, you're happier when the language has sharp corners and bleeding edge scars?

[maxlybbert]

I’m annoyed that things aren’t “complex,” “brittle,” “difficult,” etc.; they’re just “dangerous.” They’ll draw blood through the computer screen. I know programmers who have actual fear of pointer arithmetic even though they have no idea what it is.

To be fair, Java has a lot to recommend it. For one, there are, of course, an incredible number of packages available to build off of. But I find it incredible that the language that replaced finalizers with phantom references still says pointers are too dangerous for programmers.