Eric Schmidt tried to convert Google to Java

Is hating on Java really a dog whistle like you say?

My gripes with Java are because I feel it’s

1. A poor language to introduce students to computer science

2. Contains a poor api for date and time

3. Encourages overly verbose oop design

4. Has an infuriating garbage collector that’s often extremely hard to debug. Most advice just tells me to use a different garbage collector.

5. Not a fan of the thread story.

6. Large complex libraries like spring often dominate the language.

7. License issues… thanks oracle…

8. Often large memory footprints

If you’re hating a language because of a group on people or vice versa perhaps you should look inwards.