Comment on An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python

netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think Java is still a good language for beginners. The tooling around it is really good an it catches lots of issues at compile time.

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  • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d recommend Python or JavaScript to beginners. Also, Java is dying out right now.

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    • aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I seriously don’t get why Python is so popular for learners. Its a weird ass very isolated language syntactically. The libraries for it are great but still.

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      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because it dared to change the shitty syntax of bad syntax languages so humans can actually read it.

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      • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        JavaScript sometimes can be weird as hell. That’s why I prefer Python. I don’t know, for me it seemed logical from the beginning. Java definitely ain’t better.

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Java is dying” is what people who’ve never actually worked as a dev for a big company think.

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      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You say legacy code?

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      • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The company I work at is currently replacing all of their legacy Java shit with Go

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    • FourThirteen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Java is absolutely not dying… unfortunately. Billions and billions of corporation still write spaghetti code with it every day. It won’t die and it’s unfortunate.

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ditto. Been a Java developer for over 10 years and the tool maturity more than makes up for its faults as a language.

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  • starman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In my opinion, C# would be better for this job. It is similar, but has many features that simplify the code, such as top level statements, LINQ, collection expressions and stuff like that. It’s also way more popular in game development and that’s what’s in interest of most teens

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• kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Java is a great language. Still one of the most used languages in the world. Ditto python

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