Gregory's Serverwhen you regret open sourcing Java because eventually your daughter has to learn it
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@RadicalEdward if that's not peak "Why Java is shit" moment, I don't know what is! 😆  @leniwcowaty @RadicalEdward That to me feels like the wrong take for it - it's her husband who never liked Java who seems to be the source of the problem. Her daughter learning Java? Seems like a positive outcome, even if her husband hates it because he prefers vim. @leniwcowaty @RadicalEdward Or as a TL:DR; Open Sourcing vi was a mistake, not Java.    @RadicalEdward hah, love this. I once sat next to a woman on a plane who looked over and said something along the lines of "do you mind if I ask why you're writing Go instead of Java?" and I said that I'd wasted years of my life trying to tweak the million settings to make the Java garbage collector behave and she replied "oh, I wrote that". I both felt slightly bad for being rude, and was also mad at her for the hell she put me through. For the rest of the flight we sat in stony silence.  @sam @RadicalEdward lol, if you are angry about the Go garbage collector now, I know the person that wrote that too. @irene @RadicalEdward I've never had a problem with that one, it's mostly just been good enough, maybe with the occasional long pause while under heavy load that had to be worked around. If it's complaints about Go you want though, I'll gripe about the strict control the Go team maintains over the language and how much I hate the proxy and packaging systems all day :) @irene @RadicalEdward (I used to know a lot of people on the Go team as well, no idea if any of them are still there though, it's been years since I contributed at all and I mostly just try to avoid interfacing with Google as much as possible these days) @sam @RadicalEdward yes, I told Austin (the person that wrote the garbage collector) that Go was like a dictatorship and Rust is anarchy.  @RadicalEdward * Actually at the time I don't think I realised it wasn't a great intro language, but I see it better now   @RadicalEdward I "had" to learn Java at the university in 1999, years before it was open source. So the argument is moot.  |
@RadicalEdward What an egotist.