An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python::The students also learn how to design board games and video games

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      11 months ago

      I know exactly what modern Java looks like, and it could be beautiful. But… legacy cruft and lazy devs make it painful. And tech debt, let’s be honest.

      I’d view a greenfield project rather differently, but those are unicorns.

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      11 months ago

      I get it, you have no idea what trying to optimize around an ever-changing JIT recompiler looks like

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        11 months ago

        I think if your project is so performance-critical that small runtime changes can cause performance issues, Java (or any other garbage-collected language) isn’t a good choice. That’s not the case for the vast majority of projects.