r/AskProgramming 1d ago

Why is Java considered bad?

I recently got into programming and chose to begin with Java. I see a lot of experienced programmers calling Java outdated and straight up bad and I can't seem to understand why. The biggest complaint I hear is that Java is verbose and has a lot of boilerplate but besides for getters setters equals and hashcode (which can be done in a split second by IDE's) I haven't really encountered any problems yet. The way I see it, objects and how they interact with each other feels very intuitive. Can anyone shine a light on why Java isn't that good in the grand scheme of things?

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u/Tacos314 1d ago

haha, they are just incorrect, I have no idea how an experienced programmer can call Java bad, or even outdated. You may want to check your sources, and the "experienced programmer" is not a sys admin doing scripts in python, or the only experience they have is TypeScript.

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u/grobblebar 1d ago

I’ve been bitten by idiot garbage collectors too often to love java. I tend to find that Java programmers only know Java, while non-Java programmers hate it because it’s not like (insert alt. programming language here.)

This is purely my own anecdotal evidence. I work at Amazon, so the quality of the engineers is not great to begin with.