I learnt a bit of Java recently. I wish I didn't. Because I primarily work with php. Now I kind of dislike php.

Going static from a scripting language did that to me as well 😓

@saintograph I thought I was alone. Because there are lot of people who hate Java.

@emyu10 I do, since I learned C++ and C#

I like Java a lot too!

I just wish php were not so forgiving about it's usage.

Oh man, what will you say when you discover Kotlin / Swift / Go?

@rostopira He will dislike Java 😁

@Lahsen2016 it doesnt since j9 was released

@Lahsen2016 here u go

https://steveperkins.com/using-java...

Php is a real nightmare.

To stay on topic tho, i always was a java guy, tried getting into php a few times (because hey, its probs the most useful web skill there is), but it was so illogical to me, even when i tried oop php. I really wish i was somewhat decent at it :/

@BindView go into mobile or big data, no php here

@rostopira not professionally, just to have something else i can play around with, java gets a bit boring sometimes

@BindView mobile - Kotlin. Big data - Clojure and Scala. Java is really boring as hell, but if you choose right language which is compatible with java libs - you are ready to go faster than ever ;)

@rostopira yeah or maybe ill just not do that because kotlin is terrible and i use haskell for data

@BindView I've started to learn haskell, but found Clojure more pretty. And I don't think haskell have such a lot of lbs, as Java

Now I'm glad that I shot out this rant

@Lahsen2016 Java isn't used for desktop applications anymore, but mostly for servers.

Every other server-side language Also requires the user to install a VM to run it's code on the server.

Finally, if Java desktop applications are still your thing, go ahead and wrap your jar in an executable (many solutions for that out there).

@rostopira kotlin is ugly af, swift is a mess, go ... i dont know