I am taking computer science at university and I have just found out that Java will be the courses main language. The starter language is python which I am quite fond of already and have no problem with using, however due to the massive amount of hate that Java gets I am just wondering....
Is Java bad?
I mean what causes you lot to hate it?
>>61577476
Forced OOP and general dislike of its syntax, personally.
>>61577476
Enjoy your single paradigm language
>>61577476
You can either listen to /g/ or the actual industry that you're going to work for.
These are the same people telling you not to use Windows or OSX.
>>61577682
>You can either listen to /g/ or the actual industry that you're going to work for.
Ahh, the great dilemma
>>61577476
employment
>>61577723
You make it sound like the industry isn't full of its own group-think mess
>>61577784
Not him, but the industry is the one that will pay OP's salary.
>>61577476
A language that is stuck in the past, see >>61577499
>>61577476
Java isn't bad. People are just memeing. However, it's losing it's usefulness
op here and thank you for the responses. I will trust the people who are employed as I hope to be there one day myself.
>>61577784
It cant be as bad as Intels mind share.
Learning Java is fine because the JVM itself is very useful. Once you're done with it learn JPython or Clojure (lisp) or anything else that suits you
Do you want to make some easy money while you build your CV and career in order to become a well paid manager? Go with Java. Do you want to live forever in your mother's basement shitposting all day on /g/ about Linux, freedom, botnets and gay porn? Go with C, rust, Haskell and all the other meme dead languages
>>61577476
Java gets shit done and if its not fun enough to you use Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, or whatever the fuck else to continue using the libs and frameworks you got to know.
I'm doing Scala privately, its nice.
>>61577476
My courses were also in java and now I'm working as a web dev with the java spring framework, it's comfy as fuck.
>>61579914
Is spring nice?