[tombert]

This is precisely my point. For a lot of Java programmers anything that they didn’t learn in university is “bad”, as far as I can tell, purely because they don’t want to actually learn new things.

They’ll give half-hearted justifications that are usually reductive or just flat out lies [1], but ultimately it seems to boil down to new=bad.

The amount of terrible code I have had to debug because Java programmers haven’t figured out you can use queues is upsetting, because all they learned in university is how to use `synchronized` wrong.

[1] I have learned that nearly every time someone says their disgusting code is “faster”, even when they claimed they tested it, it is almost universally untrue when I write a microbenchmark to check it.