Spot on. Java is such a sad language, so verbose, so cumbersome, so inexpressive, radiating such a condescending stupidity. Its pervasiveness today, at the end of fucking 2015, is just depressing.
There are plenty of reasons why we could suppose it is pervasive without the language overall being very good compared to other languages. Entrenchment comes to mind immediately.
It can also be that a language is great for a period in history.
otherwise it's a very good language if you get to pick which libraries to work with, has some of the best tooling out there and has matured enough to let dev do what they need to do (like having first citizen memory mapped files, heck, it did non blocking i/o before it was cool and still people think node is radically different because of it)
There are so many better alternatives on the JVM now — Coljure, Kotlin, Scala.
a struct, by any other name:
public class Point {
public int x,y;
you can even do binary packed stuff with some fantasy
public class PackedRGBA{
private long v;
//following getters and setter bit shifting
}Just as the guy with two broken legs can get around a little bit using a wheelchair. Yes, the wheelchair might be great, but the poor bastard still can't dance.
This is related to my wheelchair, I suppose. Just
because I can't walk, people would ignore me when
making plans to go dancing or maybe even just go for
coffee. The place probably isn't accessible or they
think, what would a girl who can't walk do when we go
clubbing or dancing? Honestly, I dance better than
you, and I'm only moving my upper body.
EDIT: It took a couple tries to get the formatting write. Anyway, I'm just saying that 1) You shouldn't just call people in 'poor bastards', and 2) There are people in wheelchairs who can dance well and enjoy it a lot.