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

• 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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      • aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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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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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Okay, and this is relevant how? One company doing stupid shit doesn’t mean a language is dying - it’s the basis of enterprise basically everywhere

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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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