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by thomashabets2 164 days ago
I'm not saying we should phase Java out. But it's pretty clear to me that Java was a bad experiment in almost every aspect, and we should at least not add new use cases for it.

So no. No, please god no, no Java in the terminal.

More ranting here: https://blog.habets.se/2022/08/Java-a-fractal-of-bad-experim...
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ktpsns 164 days ago
And yet Java is more then Java. There are lots of more modern languages on the JVM. The ecosystem is huge and still has lots of inertia.
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thomashabets2 164 days ago
Yeah. Some of my critique applies to the language, some on the JVM and thus cross language.

Kotlin sure is less awful, for example. But the JVM, as I describe, was always a failed experiment.

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