[kleiba]

The declaration of a class and the incantation of public static void main is pure mystery to a beginning programmer.

This article misses the point, however. The problem is not writing your first hello world. The ceremony is not so much in the language itself but in the infrastructure. The verbosity of the language is just the tip of the iceberg.

I think Java back in the 90's started out actually quite decently, although from the get-go it had the verbosity. But at least it didn't have everything else yet that you're expected to know for any non-trivial program.

The first time the word "enterprise" appeared together with Java was the moment it went all downhill.

[kaba0]

There is literally nothing related to “enterprise Java” in this post.

[kleiba]

Hence "misses the point": I'm arguing that in order to get up to speed on state-of-the-art Java development, there's a lot more to learn than just the core language.

https://www.boston.com/culture/lifestyle/2011/07/19/literall...