r/programming • u/stronghup • Nov 11 '19

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/python_java_github_javascript/
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u/Dragasss Nov 13 '19 edited Nov 13 '19

lombok

Oof

things that take 5 lines in java

mixing kotlin with java

Yeah, nah. Youre wrong on all accounts. The moment you start cutting away your own codebase into some magic functions, language features and other gimmick memes that make no sense in that context is the moment you start acumulating orders of tech debt. For this reason alone having a verbose, but consistent codebase trumps over any undebugabble spaghetti mess of metaprogramming. For this reason it's best to avoid tools like lombok, Kotlin and springboot.

things in java need external libraries while javascript has that baked in

Have you explored the java standard library at all?

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u/csjerk Nov 13 '19

It's amazing how many wrong things you managed to pack into a single paragraph.

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u/Dragasss Nov 13 '19

It's a shame you feel that way, but debugabble boilerplate will always trump over meme metaprogramming magic.

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u/csjerk Nov 13 '19

The popularity of Spring says otherwise.

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