It's time to show off my java hello world with 7 errors on line 34

I know the guy meant it as a joke but in my team I see the damage "academic" OOP/UML courses do to a programmer. In a library that's supposed to be high-performance code in C++ and does stuff like solving certain PDEs and performing heavy Monte-Carlo simulations, the guys with OOP/UML background tend to abuse dynamic polymorphism (they put on a pikachu face when you show them that there's also static polymorphism) and write a lot of bad code with lots of indirections and many of them aren't aware of the fact that virtual functions and dynamic_cast's have a price and an especially ugly one if you use them at every step of your iterative algorithm. They're usually used to garbage collectors and when they switch to C++ they become paranoiac and abuse shared_ptr's because it gives them peace of mind as the resource will be guaranteed to be freed when it's not needed anymore and they don't have to care about when that is the case, they obviously ignore that under the hood there are atomics when incrementing the ref counter (I removed the shared pointers of a dev who did this in our team and our code became twice as fast). Like the guy in the screenshot I certainly wouldn't want to have someone in my team who was molded by Java and UML diagrams.

This thread reminds me that most “developers” are terrible and don’t take the time to understand the language.

All of these Java developers you guys hate is the result of schools pushing out idiots. It’s not the language but rather the type of people you hire. These people will suck at writing in any language regardless of what order they try.

When I was in the military, the shooting instructors said they preferred training females because they haven't been trained poorly by somebody else.

EDIT: Designating recruits as male and female is the way the military does things. I don't use the terms male and female when referring to groups of humans. I felt the need to clarify since somebody already took offense.

OOP does things to a person

I, too, would like the winter winds to teach me about Rust.

Man if I were in the US I'd apply for that job in a heartbeat, looks like that was written by a head dev who actually knows what he's talking about rather than some recruiter

That's really interesting. Maybe it's like @[email protected] said. For a lot of folks, OOP was the way we learned and operated for years

Could they have just asked it differently? Or do they just have Java hate.

Ool about it. Where does the java hate come from?

lol, last time I switched jobs some years ago I did the same but in the other side, I had a side small section with level of expertise on programming languages and explicitly added java with 1/10 to send a clear message xD

(is not that radical giving that I've been a embedded/graphics programmer most of my career, but still, funnier than not mentioning it)

I actually have a ton of professional Java experience and have done a lot of microcontroller stuff of late (for fun mainly) and if you go at doing software for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers the Java way you're going to end with overengineered bloatware.

It's however not a Java-only thing: most of those things have too little memory and processing resources for designing the whole software in a pure OO way, plus you're pretty much coding directly on the low-level (with at most a thin Hardware Abstraction Layer between your code and direct register manipulation) so only ever having used high-level OO languages isn't really good preparation for it, something which applies not only for people with only Java experience but also for those whose entire experience is with things like C#.Net as well as all smartphone frameworks and languages (Objective-C, Kotlin, Swift).

I've seen horrible messes made in all of the languages listed above, it doesn't matter anymore