[pyjamafish]

Ah, the infamous public static void main(String[] args). Hopefully the next generation won’t need to learn all those concepts up front with the introduction of instance main methods in Java 25.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/512

[mrguyorama]

I actually think the inscrutable Main method in java has some value. As a kid, I loved to know how things worked and always did things like read instruction manuals and read ahead in school textbooks. I wanted to know everything about anything, and I wanted to know how it worked from the bottom up.

The java main method taught me "This is abstraction, an important concept in programming. You won't always know how all the magic works all the time"

It taught that you have to deal with black boxes.

Also, I never saw it cause problems in CS101 classes, because the kids curious enough to want to know something their professor didn't explicitly talk about were usually the ones who would do fine at learning all the parts of it.

The kids who struggle with programming never seemed to have problems following "Just write your code here, you will learn more about it later"