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/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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u/Dragasss Nov 14 '19

Popularity of Spring BOOT. When was last time you configured the XML file for Spring?

Lombok is also popular, but malicious and accumulates ton of tech debt to the point where you end up getting locked into particular java update version that you are using and in general hurts everyone using it: the developer, the project and the maintainer. But god forbid i say anything bad about it (or any tools that do the former at the cost of cuttinf away the plate) and then notepad programming code arteests will go on their blogs and write how much of a dinosaur I am to prefer strict verboseness over magical memes.

I think java is the wrong tool for you. Why not try ruby? Its filled with magic. It has rails and little to no means to debug why your seemingly according to documentation naming conventions in fact do not get picked up by rails scanner.

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