So, a year ago we started to learn java at school. Since I have started learning java I hated it. I don't know why, but I absolutely don't like java. Do you guys agree? I want to like java, but I have no reasons why, anyone has some tips?

Try focusing on what you can do once you have mastered a programming language---rather than the language itself.

The latter is really just noise once you have some passion for the problem you are trying to solve.

Lol, it's the exact same thing for me, haha! I went with C#, it's similar, but to me it just feels more intuitive, idk

@2lazy2debug I definitely have language preferences, but, for me, they change based on the work I'm doing, developments in tools/frameworks, etc.

My point is that it's a secondary issue to the main thrust of the the work.

Well this might come as an insult to any java dev around here but java can put up a lot of brick-walls that you might need to get around so in respect to learning curve it's more like a series of potholes that you jump over very afraid of not falling into the abyss below so learning it is quite difficult because it challenges you in ways that are quite non-intuitive and really silly, and i've done minecraft modding and wrote a few apps myself for small stuff, some accounting computational systems but in the end after i moved over to php and python i considered the way java did things was cumbersome so now it turns into a matter of preference and if you enjoy finding creative solutions to silly problems that you should not face.

Bottom line, java is not enjoyable with how it's structured but wins at protability especially if you rebuild and compact the system like the boys at intellij did, when you get into that you're going to find the fun stuff of configuring and automating stuff.

@SanitizedOutput for me it's how rigid and inflexible it felt when using it, also the oop part of it never really felt pleasant to me, i don't think the syntax is truly ugly just excessively specific and so rigid like it has a cement suit.